I wish that every race could be as much fun as today's race! Kellie and I got up early so that we could make it over to the Red Hot Pink Chick's Half Marathon! I am technically not a RHPC, but I am married to one!!! So that got me a Elite entrance into this race! I am glad to be home from the WEEK LONG scout camp, and I was glad that I was able to come home after a week of no running and run this race. The race started at Will's Pit Stop at the mouth of Provo Cyn. We ran up 5.5 miles and then turned around and came back to the park where we had all met. Kellie had purchased me a RHPC shirt to wear and it was bright pink. I might post a pic of iton my blog, but I will give you hint that it is on some other blogs already! I started out with Scott and Kyle, I ran with them for about 3 miles and then I ran Ronda and so I jogged and talked to her for a bit. She came with Sue and was clipping a long at a good pace. I left her and then stopped with kyle at the turn around and had a GU and some water. Kelli and her sis in law hit the turn around about the same time that Kyle and I were just taking off again so we ran with them until mile 7 and then I wanted to tempo 2 miles and see if I could catch the leaders before mile 9. I left them and finally caught up to Mac and Jule at mile 9.1 so it took all of the 2 miles to catch them. I ran those 2 miles in 11:36, I was glad that I finally cought them because my claves were starting to cramp up on me. For some reason my calves were sore all week at scout camp and it carried over to Saturday. Hopefully a good hard week of running will cure me! I dropped back and ran with Josse from about mile 12 on and finished in 4th place! It was a tough field today! I got a lot of weird looks on the trail with my pink bandana and bright pink shirt but hey who cares! My 8 year old told me that only a real man can wear pink! Marion did a great job on putting this together! It was good to see Michelle there too, I feel so bad that she can't run right now. Last year at this same time she was at the top of her game! I am amazed at how well she is handling what has been thrown at her! She is one tough cookie! Kellie looked real RED HOT in her tu-tu! I might make her wear it at every race! Thanks again to everybody that helped with this race! It was a great way to end the week! 
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