Ever since my mission I made a promise to myself that I would run a marathon. In January Steph called me and said "lets run a marathon this summer!" So she found a marathon and we signed up!! It took me a while to get into the running routine but by the summer I had a good routine going. I started going on longer runs and wanted someone to run with. So I begged Wyatt to go running with me. His first run with me was a 10 miler! (The longest he has ever run before.) It was so funny to see Wyatt so excited that he ran that much. So I convinced him to keep running and soon he was hooked and "had to run the marathon." It was a great experience to train with Wyatt and training for the marathon was one of the reasons we were so active this summer. I was so excited for the marathon day to finally come!
Here are some pictures.
Day before Marathon Marathon Day
After marathon
Steph gave a great summery about how the marathon day experience was so click here.
Since we just watched the Olympics we made sure we all had our athletic tape on... Wyatt had it on his knees, Steph had it on her thigh and I had it on my arches.
The marathon was a trail run so it was more like a marathon HIKE. We climbed almost a mile high during the race. It was either extremely steep incline or extremely steep decline. It was defiantly a "definitive moment" experience for me. As we were running, when we got to the half marathon distance I thought "the smart decision would be to stop here, its been a great run but I am done!" and then I immediately thought "There is no way that I can I stop now, I am finishing this thing no matter what!" and we kept running. I know defiantly can say that the marathon was one of the hardest things I have done but I am so glad I did it. My new mindset is I ran that trail marathon so I can do anything!!
Here is the post marathon mani and pedi picture, thanks Wyatt for letting me get pampered!!
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