Third Time's a Charm!

Well friends, I did it. I ran a third half marathon! This one was in American Fork, UT and it was the Timpanogos Half Marathon. I believe it was their first year holding the race. It was awesome! There were loads of people there and lots of room so no one seemed too crowded. I met up with my awesome sister, Mindy Allison and my awesome friend, Monica Morales. We were awesome together and bought matching outfits because you have to do that kind of thing when you are awesome. So we all had our awesome purple shirts on and people called us the Purple Ladies or the Purple Girls. I think we should've thought of a name before we started, like the Awesome Ladies. But Purple Ladies was okay with us :-)

Here are a few momentous pictures to mark the occasion.


We had to wake up around 3:30 am and arrive in the parking lot at 4ish so we could be bused up to the top of the mountain. Here we are at about, well, there it is on the picture...5:13! Bright eyed and rearing to go!



Mindy and Monica still have a little of that hood mentality in them, I guess because they look like they are TRYING to look intimidating. It didn't scare any of the other racers, though...


And here is my dorky running pose again! Looking especially dorky this time around.

Mindy seemed to do it a little less dorky.



This was the crowd waiting in line for the bathroom and cheering the full marathon runners on as they came in for the turnaround! That was pretty cool to see! They had to get up REALLY extra early!

Then I tried to get a picture of the crowd doing yoga and totally blinded the fella behind me with my super bright flash! Didn't get too great a shot of the yoga people, but a nice shot of his shirt sleeve instead. Haha!


And here we are after the race! We ran it in about 2:43 or something like that! And we all stayed together!


And we earned these amazingly huge medals! They are pretty enough to make out with, too. So, of course, we did. Well, two-thirds of us did!


Then we felt like warriors so had to pose like them. It isn't too intimidating, though, is it?


I guess we could be happy warriors, right?!

It was such a beautiful and smooth run. And my easiest so far, and the easiest to recover from as well! I am hoping that's because I'm in better shape... I hope so because I have another one coming up in November with Betsy and Mindy and any other sisters, cousins, nieces or friends that want to join us! I can't wait for that one!!! I wonder what color shirts we will don then? Hmmm...any suggestions?!