to the bone and back...

heres the post that i have been meaning to post for a few weeks, the pics i was waiting for never showed up, so i'll make do. anyways...this was seriously an awesomely difficult race....meaning that i was a really great race, but pretty darn hard. The race was called The Bone and Back, we started in Idaho Falls, and ran out to this old run-down store called the Bone Store, then turned around and ran back. We each carried the baton, which was a little bone...they went all out with the "bone". The relay was a 40 mile relay, with 8 people per team, thank goodness, cuz five miles was about as far as i could go on this course. (It was also an option to run the whole freakin 40 miles solo-they called it the ultra marathon- I will go ahead and rename it to the Very Stupid Person Ultra Marathon...seriously who runs 40 miles in the middle of the day) anyhow, we had a pretty awesome team, and took fourth place!! The second leg of the relay was literally NO LIE 5 straight miles up-hill, and for the most part it was no gradual incline...it was ridiculously uphill, bless her heart, Stacey, who ran this leg for us, she did amazing! I thought mine was hard, with 2 straight miles uphill, but mine didn't even come close to comparing to hers. Everyone did really great. For some reason i am totally LOVING running this summer, especially doing races...I think its the races that are keeping me motivated to keep running, but either way, its great. And i totally want to run this race again next year, so if ya wanna do it too....let me know.

our team minus a few

Kathy runnin her little heart out
Here is the course....its divided in the fourlegs, and then you turn around and run them on the way back too. pretty crazy!