03-23-2013

today, lily joined me on my first trail race ever! 

(hers, too)

it was in agoura hills

they had 2 half marathons (one is a road race, while this one, the tougher course, was a trail race)

if you look really closely, on the left most portion of the picture below, you can see people...

it's around mile 8 up at the top.  miles 2-8 were pretty much uphill with almost 900ft elevation gain.

 although this picture below doesn't look as menacing, if you look carefully enough, you can see the people winding all the way to the top as well.
there were many rocky portions as well as parts where we could only run through one person at a time (it was that narrow)
BUT, having said all that, it was FUN!
very different, very tough, and kind of dirty =/
i would run this again!
(my quads hurt today, the day after, btw)

 i got in about 11 minutes before lily...here she is in the finishe's chute

 my time, average pace, and my medal:

peter's mom texted me after the race, and i said matt was at home, but had a game at 2pm.  i think he came over about 1pm, but stayed while matthew had his game (a little weird, but ok...) he played with dashiell and brennan while matt was gone.  

when matt came home they hung out some more and then when matt had to go to his dad's at 7pm peter went with him (supposedly to stay till around 9:30-10:00pm)

i'm so glad they got to hang out, it had been a really long time!  peter is at least 6 feet tall now and his voice is getting deeper...

growing up too fast!!!