So yes, we know that I am a total slacker. How can I talk weight loss when I never post anything? Well I am trying to be better and since I am trying to avoid cutting up Elk with Lance it seams like a good time to catch up. :)
So I hit the big 3-0 this year and I wanted to do something awesome to celebrate. So I ran a half marathon! After spending the morning hunting, we headed down to Provo where I was going to run the next morning. It was a Halloween Marathon so everyone one dressed up. I dressed as a bee because that was all I could think of. It was the craziest race I've ever ran. All along the course were abandoned pieces of people's costumes. Cat tails, masks, super man capes, wings and all kinds of costume parts littered the ground.
I met all 2700 people and 70+ buses at the mall at 6:30am. We were bused up Provo canyon and dropped off on the freezing cold mountain. There were probably 30+ port-a-potties lined up along the start line with hundreds of people in line to use them. So I took my place in line with the others. While chatting with someone in line I mentioned I was from Wyoming, they asked why I traveled that far and I said it was my 30th birthday. So she led the 100+ people in line for the john in a port-a-potty happy birthday song. It was awesome. A serenade I will never forget.
The start line was so crowded it was probably over 2 minutes after the gun went off that we could actually start running. It was ALL down hill and so we were flying. They had pacers running the race holding signs with how fast they were running- awesome! I stayed between the 10 min 18sec mile pacer and the 10min 45 sec. pacer which is really time good for me for 13 miles.
It was an easy 13 miles, if you could ever call 13 miles easy. It was beautiful and I was never alone there were always lots of other runners all around me dressed in crazy crazy costumes.
I finished in 2 hours 16 minutes which was much faster then I expected. 17 minutes faster then my first half. That combined with the thousands of people at the finish line, Lance and the kids didn't make it in time to see me cross. We met up about 20 minutes later after I borrowed another runner's cell phone and called Lance.
So here I am about a half hour after I crossed. They gave me a really cool metal so I'm posing with it.
I met all 2700 people and 70+ buses at the mall at 6:30am. We were bused up Provo canyon and dropped off on the freezing cold mountain. There were probably 30+ port-a-potties lined up along the start line with hundreds of people in line to use them. So I took my place in line with the others. While chatting with someone in line I mentioned I was from Wyoming, they asked why I traveled that far and I said it was my 30th birthday. So she led the 100+ people in line for the john in a port-a-potty happy birthday song. It was awesome. A serenade I will never forget.
The start line was so crowded it was probably over 2 minutes after the gun went off that we could actually start running. It was ALL down hill and so we were flying. They had pacers running the race holding signs with how fast they were running- awesome! I stayed between the 10 min 18sec mile pacer and the 10min 45 sec. pacer which is really time good for me for 13 miles.
It was an easy 13 miles, if you could ever call 13 miles easy. It was beautiful and I was never alone there were always lots of other runners all around me dressed in crazy crazy costumes.
I finished in 2 hours 16 minutes which was much faster then I expected. 17 minutes faster then my first half. That combined with the thousands of people at the finish line, Lance and the kids didn't make it in time to see me cross. We met up about 20 minutes later after I borrowed another runner's cell phone and called Lance.
So here I am about a half hour after I crossed. They gave me a really cool metal so I'm posing with it.
I'm trying to show off my stinger here.
And this is me with the kids. One of the coolest parts of being a runner is your kids think you are awesome especially when you get a metal or a trophy
I finished 1735th out of all the racers and 23rd in my division out of 65. Not too shabby!
So update on weight loss- I should do this every week- I'm down .6 this week a total of 39.4 lbs! I'm getting there!!
