13.1 miles | 2:12:23 | 10:01 pace | AF Canyon Half Marathon It might be a good idea for me to wait a bit to write this report--for a time when I'm feeling a bit less bitter and angry. But then I'm always bitter and angry about something... Half #2 for both my older daughters Tilly and Hay-Hay. I felt pretty fortunate 2 weeks ago that I got them both across the finish line in 2:27, but with the kick they had at the end I knew they had more in them than they had been letting on. But then the older of the two started suffering from shin splints so we cut her runs down to almost nothing. But she has the "bug" and keeping her from running 0 didn't work. She KT Taped up Friday night and was raring to go Saturday morning. Sort of. Both girls said they were even more anxious for this race than they were for their first. We started out towards the back after having visited with Smooth and Karen and some of my work buddies. I work for Intermountain and there were a bunch of Intermountain employees there running and/or volunteering. Off we went at the start and were cruising right along. The canyon will frequently play games with my Garmin so I'm not confident in the splits it gave me but I'm fairly sure were were averaging in the 9:00 range--which I thought was great. The shinsplints didn't seem to be an issue except for when we were out of the canyon and there were a couple of short sections of steeper downhill that bothered her some but not much. That we finished at or near a 10 minute average was super-duper. We then passed up the breakfast there at the finish for breakfast at IHOP so the kiddies and spouses of my girls could eat. And then we went to the pool where I did really really good about applying sunscreen except on the tops of my feet and shoulders. I'm an idiot. And then the younger of the two daughters and her hubby took me to a Real Salt Lake game for fathers day. I drove up to meet them in Sandy and dumped my car so we wouldn't have to pay for parking for two cars. I picked a poor spot to drop off my car cause it was lovingly and graciously hauled off by a pair of predatory towing guys. $250 later, I'm home with my car. @$^ @!$^ !!#%$^ #$%#@!!! It was a good day. :|
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