On Oct. 31st we ran the Provo Halloween half Marathon. We had decided that since packet pickup was in Provo the night before we had booked a hotel in Provo so that we didn't have to drive home and then all the way back early early Saturday morning. After we picked up the packets we grabbed some dinner and then checked into the hotel and realized we had forgotten a very important bag at home. So we drove all the way home and back again and during this drive we decided that we would be willing to just wake up early the next year and drive to Provo for the race and save the money on the hotel and have all of our running stuff available at home with us. Anyways, the next morning we had to be to the University Mall by 6am to load buses which took us up Provo canyon. It was a bit unorganized they had quite a few buses and then some of the bus drivers didn't know where to drop us off at and we couldn't see out the windows which was probably a good thing because I have no idea how close we were to the edge of the road/cliff. Finally, they figured out where to drop us off at and there was a huge tent where we waited for about 2 1/2 hours while they just had music playing and a costume contest. It kinda stunk because you're all hyped up and then you wait 2 1/2 hours they hyped upness kinda wears off. It was crazy to see all of the funny costumes though.
The race finally started at about 930am. It was absolutely gorgeous running down Provo Canyon. Running downhill has it's pro's and con's. For not training for this race basically at all the first 6-7miles went by super quick for me. Ben is a tad bit faster than me so we didn't run it together. He finished in about 3 hours and I did it in about 3 hours 10 min. Not too shabby.
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