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Sat, Jun 23, 2012

Race: Wedding Bells Relay (3.107 Miles) 00:15:11, Place overall: 1

Running Miles	Swimming Yards	Bike Miles
12.00	0.00	0.00

If RAGNAR counts for race reports, than so does this! :-)

Had a great time at Allie & James' Wedding Bells Relay this morning. Allie posted the results here. We stacked the deck for our team - not necessarily in terms of talent, but definitely in terms of outfits! The girls wore dresses...Kevin and I wore our best shorts. Devra ran our leadoff 200m leg, then we alternated 400s - me, Kevin, Amiee, and Andrea. My splits were 63, 62, 64 for my 3 legs. It felt harder than running a full mile at that pace a few weeks ago! Pretty good for my "easy" week and running 22 miles yesterday.

Our main competition was the Pachev family - Sasha and Benjamin really took on their fair share of the load for the family, running more legs than any of us did. It was so cool that their whole family ran - even down to the ones who are barely big enough to walk!

Just a lot of fun this morning... thanks Allie & James for putting this together. I think of all the cool races I've run in the past month, this was definitely my favorite.

8 miles warming up to SHP, then cooled down about 3.5 w/ Bonnie and Dean. Awesome to finally meet those two and spend some time running and chatting with them.

Took LOTS of pictures...

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Comments

From Lulu Walls on Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 12:12:35 from 166.70.240.95

Sweet photos! Ummm... we are pretty much awesome :) Thanks for letting me be part of the team!

From Holt on Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 12:35:45 from 67.2.240.4

Where did you get your flag shorts? I want some SO bad!

From allie on Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 13:06:17 from 71.213.54.167

awesome. i'm so glad you got some good photos -- mine are all from my phone and they are terrible. you captured everything -- even the guy sitting on the goal post. what the?

i love the ones with sasha and kevin receiving the batons -- so intense!

thanks so much for coming.

From ACorn on Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 13:56:24 from 24.2.76.146

Awesome day! What a cool event.

From Jake K on Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 14:23:53 from 67.177.11.154

Holt - running warehouse has them. Andrea got them for me for my bday. Best present EVER.

The goal post guy was a cross fitter. There were some guys doing some intense stuff after you left.

From Bam on Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 14:44:38 from 89.204.176.228

Great photos. Looks like you all had rucks of fun. Nice shot of the biceps there, Jake. My daughter said, imagine if the priest/whoever does the wedding said 'I now pronounce you husband and wife; you may race the bride.'

From Fritz on Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 15:15:17 from 65.100.192.74

Awesome outfits and good relay form. So how do the guys get away with split shorts and no shirts while the girls have to wear dresses? It would seem more fitting for the guys to wear tuxes or suits.

From Kelli on Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 15:32:25 from 67.172.235.55

Thanks for the pictures, now I am not so sad I had to miss the event---it was almost like being there. Although being lapped by women in dresses would have certainly been a highlight of my day.

From scottkeate on Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 16:05:40 from 71.199.4.146

What a cool event. When you mentioned that you had plans to attend Allie and James' event this morning, I didn't for a second envision this :-)

I'm with Fritz on the lack of equality when it comes to the outfits. I think to really make it fair for next year the guys get to run in dresses and the girls in shorts :-)

From scottkeate on Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 16:06:57 from 71.199.4.146

Oh, by the way Jake. You're looking a little fat. I'm just say'n.

From Superfly on Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 17:35:40 from 74.211.21.81

Awesome

From Scott Ensign on Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 18:34:44 from 70.58.47.132

nice race and nice pics. I bet you borrowed those shorts from Apollo Creed?

From Rachelle on Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 21:00:25 from 66.7.127.115

This absolutely counts as a race report jake. So freaking awesome and fun. I love it!

From MarkP on Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 21:54:35 from 75.162.238.222

With those shorts, I hope you sang the national anthem before the start! Looks like a good time!

From Jake K on Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 22:41:31 from 67.177.11.154

We thought about wearing tuxes, but I only wear my tux for spring skiing, never for running. Plus it was a celebration of James' new USA citizenship. And they have a 1" inseam so they are perfect for all occasions.

You would not want to hear me sing, Mark. Ask Andrea. :-)

It was pretty much the best race of the year. Gonna be tough to top this one!

From Tina on Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 15:13:26 from 75.162.251.83

Awesome pics! I love how Andrea's shoes even match her dress!

From Adam RW on Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 09:33:20 from 155.101.152.123

Looks like a lot of fun was had by all. I like the jumping photos. The double handoff was also really cool.

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