Mt Marathon #5

So I may be going slightly back in time here, but I have to give myself a pat on the back after completing my 5th Mount Marathon Race in Seward every 4th of July.

I trained pretty hard this year, with an unforgiving wedding dress to squeeze into that helped motivate my butt up the mountain each week.

It was extra special this year with my friend Cat, and sister Lucy and bro-in law Dave cheering me on, and my husband was super lovely and took the 4th off which he hasn't done in a bazillion years.

It was cool rollin around with my peeps pre-race, though I was slightly dreading it with the super hot, no breeze weather that was going to make it suck.

There are two waves at the start, the fastest 150 women from last year go first, then the rest 5 mins later. This gives us a bit more of a spread on the trail as it gets chooka full.

And so basically it did completely suck, it was so hot I thought I was going to pass out, but I kept myself motivated and just kept on stridin...

I came in 29th place in 1:14:14, I was really stoked and mega proud! It was hard work...and every year I say not again, then I slowly forget the pain and sign up again.

Craig was all hopped up on some leftover Mike's hard lemonade from the wedding the night before, he kept disappearing into the shed all night long and now I know what he was doing, my number one fan!

We went back to Lucy and Dave's little rented house downtown and drank beer and watched the mens race from the garden, it was seriously the hottest day we all got sunburn!

Apart from some serious blisters and one toenail that is going to most likely fall off in a few months, I held up pretty well!