Saturday morning I ran the St. George Marathon for the second time and it was SO fun! It rained the entire 26.2 miles which was interesting, and cold, but still fun. I beat my time from last year by 40 minutes. My official time was 4 hours and 5 minutes. I was so proud of myself because I only trained for a month. At the half way point I was on pace to run it in 3 hours and 50 minutes, but the cold got to me at about mile 16. I have had problems with my IT band since high school. (It connects from your hip to the outside of your knee). At mile 16 you have just ran downhill for over a mile straight so your joints are already hurting, and then it was really cold on top of that, so my IT band started to freeze up and I could barely bend my knee. So I had to stretch my hip and knee about every 10 minutes for the rest of the marathon just to be able to run normal! But, despite the problems I still am very happy about how I did, and I can't wait to run another marathon someday! But, right now I will just try to get over how sore my hips and knees are! Here are some pics--keep in mind I was completely soaked from head to toe!
After the marathon we (Eric and I) drove straight home. We stopped at In-n-out in St. George for me to change into some warm dry clothes and then just drove. Bryan wasn't able to come watch me because his mom and sister were here and they were working for like 3 days straight on his mom's apartment in Salt Lake to get it ready for someone to move into.
All day today we have been hanging out with Brenda (Bryan's mom) his sister Marshelle and her husband Rhett and their adorable baby Grant, and also our sister in law Marie. It has been so much fun! Here are some pictures...
This one looks like I cut my hair, but I didn't it is just tucked behind my shoulders.
I had to add this picture also...I put a shirt on Zeus tonight and he sat by the door and was so mad at me! It was hilarious!
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