Provo Halloween 1/2 Marathon

* I added some pictures that professionals took of me at the race *

This past Saturday was the Provo Halloween 1/2 Marathon.

Rich, Mike, and I did it (and our friend Ryan too).

We woke up at 4:30 Saturday morning to get down to Provo.  They bused us up to Aspen Grove, where the starting line was.  The race didn't start until 9am, so we had 2 1/2 hours to wait.  Luckily they had a nice big heated tent that we waited in because it was freezing!  

The race was fun, in a semi-miserable way.  It was fun to do with my brothers and even more fun to talk about now that it's over.  It was a hard race - the first 5 miles were downhill, STEEP downhill and I think we all ran that part too fast.  I felt like I was running so slow from mile 6-13.  Thank goodness for my iPod and shot blocks that kept me going.  My time was 1 hour 42 minutes, which I was very happy with.  

John brought Brooklyn down and I saw them at mile 12 and then again at the finish line.  John was able to take a couple pictures of Rich, but the camera died right as I was running by him.  Here are a couple pictures of Rich....and Brooklyn in her stroller.

Luckily my friend Mandy was at the finish line and able to get a couple of me racing to the end...I look very, very tired!

These ones are from the professionals at the race...

 This girl and I were racing it out in the end....I think I got her by a step or two :)

These last few days I have been so sore.  I don't think I've been this sore since I ran the 24th of July marathon, which was also a lot of downhill.  I forgot how painful downhill races can be.

After the race on Saturday John and I headed up to Park City with Rich and Misty, Mike, and Pete (and Brooklyn and Sophia too) to Misty's uncles condo.  It was a perfect way to spend the rest of the weekend - relaxing, going out to eat, talking, laughing, telling scary stories, watching our homemade Halloween movies, and playing games.