Sunday, January 24, 2010

St. George Half Marathon

First things first....Does anyone else think I look like sloth from the Goonies? Man I need to do something with my hair before I run. Waking up and running isn't a recipe for a good picture as you can tell. Oh well, even if I am U...G...L...Y and I have no alibi, I still have the cutest wife and kid by my side and thats what really counts. One crazy thing that happened during the race was a horse for some reason jumped the fence and was running the course with us. It happened right in front of me and for the first couple minutes of watching this big burley beast run wild on the course I was afraid that we were going to have some seriously hurt people, but the flood of runners acted like a moving fence and kept the horse confined to a relatively small area. As I continued running, I saw more police cars converging on the place where the horse ran wild and later saw an ambulance heading that way also, on any other day I would of enjoyed watching the local authorities try and coral the horse (I am sure I could of gotten some good video footage) but I was on a mission and didn't want to get distracted from my goal. Overall the race was lots of fun, I didn't talk to anyone....and as I was approaching the finish line and looked up at the official time I first hoped that it was under two hours and then I was shocked to see that it was 1:46:00. Fastest time yet.