Skyline Half 2019

Nate and I ran our race! I was so, so nervous, as I tend to be, but it rocked. The weather was perfect - we even got a couple little rain showers. The first three miles were straight up, the next seven were so, so fun - down the mountain on a nice dirt trail. Couldn't have asked for anything better. I did faceplant once, but luckily, there were no rocks around and I just got really dusty and scraped my knee and my elbow up. Then the last four were along the reservoir. So pretty, so fun. Nate killed this race! He was so fast! Fourth in his age group and something like 20th overall. And then he ran back to me and hauled me across the finish line. Just kidding about the hauling, he was a very welcome companion, though. I walked some and ran some during this race, and I felt good about it. Lots of walking during the last four miles. Also, it's worth noting that I totally ate a pickle at an aid station around mile 10, and I liked it. I feel like I get life experience points for that.

Chilly at the starting line.

In the portapotty line before we started. Nervous and excited!

Ogden starting to wake up.

Views from the top. Absolutely sublime.

And there was a rainbow. Like, for real.

And a little bit of rain.

At the finish. We were glad to be done. Our dogs were definitely barking. We still have blister remnants on our feet, in fact. A big thanks to Nate's mom for coming and taking care of our little ones so Nate and I could do this awesome thing together. We loved it!

Nate was already prepared to sign up for next year at this point. We've decided that if we do it again, we should train up to about 16 miles or so and hopefully that will help us have a little more gas in our tanks at the end.

I think the medals are cool! They're topographical maps!