Early AM: walked .5 mile, stretched, then did a 20 min elliptical workout, then weighed myself, showered, and got the kids in the car to get to the SF half by 6am for volunteering. I had alot of fun volunteering, and my boys enjoyed hanging out at the park, playing in the maze garden, climbing trees. Smooth was there, as cheerful as ever, didn't even mention to me that she got zero sleep. I think the zero sleep works for her since she pulled off a PR performance today. While there was volunteer downtime, I walked the course backward (.3 miles) to see the leaders and to see if my course record I set last year would stand. It did, the leading lady was about 4 minutes behind my time last year. I started to run after walking (1.1 miles) including a 2 minute stint with TylerS. I later went on the route again to find Smooth, walked the ending to find her a couple of times (this would have been easier if I knew what time she was targeting). She was looking soo good and there were four ladies ahead of her, so I took the risk she would get mad at me and started screaming "Go get those ladies! Practice your kick!" And then started running after her when she had passed three out of the four and kept yelling at her. She looked so great and finished so strong. When she crossed the finish line she just kept running so I couldn't catch her and congratulate her--she's like the energizer bunny. Afterward, I thought how dumb I was, I should have coordinated with her re: pacing her for the last mile, since I needed to run a mile, but I wasn't sure I could get away from my volunteer post, but it turns out it would have been just fine. The SF running club puts on a wonderful event. Very family friendly, the 5k runs while the 1/2 is going, so supportive family members can get in a little exercise, pancakes and fruit aplenty, and a tough, honest 1/2 marathon course. I am more grateful than ever to them for putting this on year after year. Will post about the pig wrestling later, I need to get ready for church. Pig wrestling: we lost so bad, but we had a blast! See Marion's blog for video and pics. Afterward Kellie and Tyler were generous enough have us over to watch the end of the BYU game which was awesome! And they provided a chocolate fountain, just what I needed--one step away from the chocolate iv!
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