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We had a blast this weekend! Dave's parents, my parents, Hailey (my youngest sister), and Dave and I went down to St. George for the marathon. We stayed at the Inn at Entrada, which is where Dave and I stayed for a couple nights after we got married and it was awesome. It was so great having our parents and Hailey there with us!
The marathon went really well. We reached our (secondary) goal of finishing under 4 hours. Our times were 3:55:40 (me) and 3:55:44 (Dave). We definitely are feeling the consequences of not training as good as we should have though. We are still sore today. Getting out of bed and taking those first few steps on Sunday morning were pretty much torture. Also, even though we are very proud of what we did, we feel like if we would have stuck to our training program we could have had much better times. I guess we will just have to do another one! :)

These first pictures are at the Inn at Entrada. We ended up buying stuff to make spaghetti back at our room the night before the marathon because every restaurant in town was packed! We were glad that we had a kitchen to cook in.

Dave and his mama cookin' away...
Me and Hailey...

My mom and pop....

Dave's padre...

So our little cheering crew was at mile 7 and then at the end. The next four pics are at mile 7.

I think I look a bit crazed in the next picture...

I am in the black top and green shorts. Dave has on a blue top and black shorts.

And I love the sign that guy on the right of the picture is holding! I think I need a shirt that says that on it. (If you can't read it, it says, "That's not sweat... it's your fat cells crying!!)

This picture is just to show how many runners there were. You can't really tell unless you make it bigger but there is just a mass of people all the way up the hill. There were 7200 runners registered and about 5700 finished the race. (some people probably just didn't show up and some probably didn't finish)

This is coming up to the finish.

Post-race, back at our room... In front of our little casita :)... Just before heading home...

Overall, it was a great way to spend a weekend! And we loved having our cheering crew that came along!

I have a feeling we may be doing at least one more marathon to see how well we can really do!