One week from today

One week from today we will running in the Colorado Ragnar relay with our team "Ultra Stoopidz"! Ultra style! If you don't know, Ragnar is a 12 person overnight relay run that covers about 200 miles. Normal with 2 vans and six people per van. However, we are doing an ultra team which is just one van and 6 runners doing the 200 miles. I am going to be runner 2 and i will runner around 30 miles! Crazy! It should be so much fun and defiantly an experience to remember! More to come...

Top of Utah Half Marathon

Last weekend Travis and I ran the Top of Utah half in Logan, Utah. I really enjoyed this run, except for the fact that we live about an hour away and had to wake up at 3am to arrive on time. The first 7 miles are down the canyon and then it flattens out for the last 6 with a little incline towards the end. Once again the first 10 miles were great and the last 3 were hard. I think I am running too fast in the beginning and losing steam towards the end. Something I defiantly need to work on. I also make a 4 minute bathroom stop! Hopefully one day I will make it through an entire half with no bathroom breaks :) My time was just 1 minute slower than my previous  1:57:40. 

I also have come to the conclusion that I am an Ugly runner! LOL! I viewed my photos here and in every single picture my mouth is WIDE OPEN and I look like I am half dead! Ha ha! Not sure if I was really into chewing my gum or what! Surprised I didn't catch any flies....

I found this picture on Facebook. I am the one in the pink in the middle (with my mouth wide open)  :) 

And my Instagram race photo

Crandall Canyon Memorial Half Marathon

This was a Beautiful Half Marathon in central Utah. It is a Mammoth Marathons Half and is held in memory of that miners that died in the Crandall Canyon mine collapse in 2007. The canyon was so pretty, even with all the recent fire damage. It is a great downhill run. I ran my personal best time for this half 1:56:20. The first 10 miles were awesome I held my average pace at around 8:30. At mile 10 I took a bathroom break and after that the last 3 miles were so hard and slow. But I met my goal of running a half in under 2 hours and I am So, So HAPPY!!

Travis did awesome in this race at 1:48:00 and got 3rd place for men.