Enjoy the Journey? Big Cottonwood Half Marathon 5/13/2017

Deena, Joni, Rachel and I signed up to do the Vigor Big Cottonwood Half Marathon.

We started our training for our half marathon the first week of February.  We each ran our week day runs on our own, but ran our long training runs together.  If we were out of town, we sent pictures of our runs....so it was like we were doing them together!

 Juneau, Alaska, running one by myself, and one with Caitlyn! 

Deena's picture for that week!

 Dean ran this one in Cancun with me.

 Deena and Joni getting their run done.  

(Rachel wasn't home from her mission yet)

 Helena, Montana....by myself.

Meanwhile....

 These guys were doing their runs without me.....I'm kind of glad, looks cold!

Running down Rose Canyon

 Running down Little Cottonwood Canyon

Big shout out to Deaner, he would take us up the different canyons to do our long runs!

Dean dropped us off at Snowbird for this run.

On this run, we ran from Greg's house to my house, about 12.3 miles.  Along the way was a sign advertising the race we were training for!

Our last training run together was down Big Cottonwood Canyon, the actual race route.

 (Historic Old Mill in the background)

It's GO time!

We had to catch the bus at 4:30 a.m.  

We were all well prepared for this race, and it was great weather, and beautiful scenery!

Let's do this!

Here is Deena pushing through some pretty painful miles.

Less than 2 miles to go, finishing strong!

A picture of Teri taking pictures of us as we cross the finish mat!  I love that feeling!

  We had great cheerleaders at the finish line.  If you want to see the actual finish....click on this link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgnBSdXDdiU&t=1h50m46s

Yay us!

 Photo credit:  Dean, Dorleen, and us!