And we ran - we ran so far away

Saturday was running day for the Morgans. Rick and I ran the Ogden Half Marathon and the Kids ran the Kid K.

I have been running for about 10 years, and after my boss talked me into a 10K 4 years ago I have been running further and faster each year until the culmination of my running at the Ogden Marathon last year - where I lost my sanity and thought running a Marathon (26.2 miles) would be "fun." Unlike many predicted -I did NOT become addicted to the marathon, and have decided that the 1/2 Marathon (13.1 miles) is as far as I want to run. I have had a good 5 years of running further and faster than Rick. Last year Rick said he would do the half with me and we started training together in about March. I drug him along for a few months, but by May he was keeping up fine and even pulling me along sometimes.

Rick has finally caught the running bug and my days of kicking his butt are over. We ran together for our first 1/2 marathon and finished in 2 hours 55 seconds. We were very close to our goal of 2 hours. The truth is I held him back and he could have run at least 5 minutes faster. I had some congestion and didn't sleep well, blah blah blah. The truth is he is taller and stronger than me. Maybe running with him now will make me faster.

We ran with our kids later that day in the Kid K one mile run. They did great! Paige chugged along through a side ache and didn't let Kate beat her. Kate ran with Rick and they "didn't even stop one time!" They did some "power walking" and "regular walking", but they didn't stop. Callie zipped off at the start and we didn't see her again until the finish. "I ran the whole way Mom, and I looked up and there was the finish line, and I couldn't believe I was finished already!" Jim and Ryley joined us and Ryley beat everyone from his gym!

I wish we had some pictures, but when everyone participates there isn't anyone to snap photos.
When the "official photos" get posted on the Ogden marathon site there might be some of our gang. If you want to search for photos of us you can look here: http://www.zazoosh.com/events/201