I vividly remember this race last year. I was extremely pregnant (walking the one mile) and soaking wet in the rain. This year we were hoping for blue skies. But Utah had other plans. It rained, snowed, and the freezing temperature kept our toes numb. The kids were as bundled up as could be, but we still felt slightly negligent hauling them out into the bitter cold. However frigid though, Julia would not want to miss a good race.
Jonny ran with the kids and took it somewhat easy as he has only been running a few times this spring. (I believe this is the first time I have come in before him. Even with the kids he always beats me. It was pretty fun to look over my shoulder and see them not too far behind. Julia's thumbs-up is a great motivator.) I felt like I was running well and was slightly disappointed to see the clock past 25 minutes as I ran in. (Under 25 is my goal when I run without the kids. I have always met it. Could it have been my numb toes or the biting wind that added the seconds to my miles? Not sure. But it's not a bad time anyway.)
Perhaps this was a tougher (slightly longer??) race for most runners because I came in 1st in my age group (out of about 19 20-25 years olds) and 7th overall in women. Jonny was 7th in his age group and 22nd in men overall. See the full results here.
We will probably do this fun race again next year. Maybe we'll be lucky enough to run in only one layer of clothing then? We will see...
These expressions are priceless:
Check out Gabe eying Julia's ice cream sandwich.Her hands about froze off after eating that.
Warming up in the car after the race:
