Monday, October 10, 2011

The beginnings of a race...

On friday night all of us "marathoners" went up to Portland to get our bibs, free t-shirts, and things.



We got our bibs and looked around. They had a bunch of booths with things like trail bars, shoes, shirts, other marathons you can register for.


We had to cross this line. It would ''count'' us so we were Officially In. ;)


Everyone found a shirt or sweatshirt that they liked and we headed out. We were all starving. 



 By this time it was about 8.30 and we still had to go to REI. Mom, Brittney, Katelyn and I stayed in the car while they "ran in". riiight... well. What were we supposed to do to occupy ourselves? We decided to move the car to a far corner of the parking lot. Hey it was late and he were delusional from hunger. It didn't take much to entertain us. ;) It was really funny to see them come out of the store, freak out because the car wasn't where they'd left it, and then slowly scan the parking lot looking for us. Haha, they did find us and we headed for Red Robin for dinner. 

We stored up on lots carbs (our excuse to eat a lot of food). :)
We talked about every angle of the marathon we could think of, planned our Sunday morning trip to Portland and other details of the race. All our training had come to an end and the race was upon us! Just one more day to rest and drink lots of water.  


Katelyn and I were so nervous! 


          Look how long that route is! 26.2 miles. Boy...we are crazy.

4 comments:

  1. Sounds like fun!!! =)
    -Talia

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  2. Lot's of miles.. and sore legs.. but you made it!!
    Hurray!!!!!!!! :-)

    Love Kara

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  3. O my gosh! Mom said that's like running to Redmond!:0 I could never do that! You go girl!
    Erin

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  4. Haha, Erin. Redmond is 18 miles from p-ville, and I have to say 18 is when it starts getting hard. 26 (.2!) is really hard... 18 is actually not that bad. :) I can't believe I'm saying this....

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