Saturday, August 18, 2012

Park City Marathon and Half

Yeah....because this week hasn't been busy enough, let's top it off with running a marathon!  
This morning was the Park City Marathon.  It was perfect running weather.  The course wasn't an easy one, an out and back, but the scenery was awesome. Dean ran the Full, and Erika ran the Half. 
 Here is Dean just about to finish the marathon. 

Dean has been recovering from an injury (seriously, this is the biggest ugliest bruise I have ever seen), and this is a tough course, so he knew he wasn't going to get his fastest time, but he did great anyway.  He got off to a bad start, took a wrong turn on the route so added and extra 0.4 mile, because, let's face it, 26.2 just isn't long enough!


 Dean and our friend Alisha finished the race together.

 At the end of the race they gave use cold washcloths, that's the lovely headdress Dean is wearing in this picture. 


Dean and Erika right after the race.

You knew it was coming, the picture with our finisher's medals and our new t-shirts.  No, these aren't forced smiles at all.....wow, we need to work on that!

1 comment:

mommaquincy said...

Whoa! That was one ugly bruise! The only worse one I've seen was when Grandma got whipped by the ski rope. I think it might have been her last ski trip. You guys are good!