Half Marathon!!

In early December we decided to enter a lottery for the Canyonlands Half Marathon held in Moab every spring. We've been running 5ks for the past few years, but this is quite a bit more. It was kind of silly but we paid our money and then crossed our fingers that we wouldn't get in! As luck would have it, we got in (Kyle, Krista, and I). We felt bad that our friends that encouraged us to sign up didn't get in. We started our training. Sadly, along the way Krista got hurt and had to withdraw from the race. We ended up leaving the kids with the family and Kyle and I snuck away for a weekend in Moab. The whole timeI was running I was thinking was "Is this what we have to do to get a little vacation?"

It was a long 13.1 miles! Longer for me than Kyle, though. He finished in 1:32. It was such a beautiful route. We ran right along the river.

We made it!

Later that day we went along the route and took some pictures. It took me a couple minutes to climb up here. Kyle set the camera for ten second delay and ran up to sit by me.