Pocatello Marthon.

Did you notice that I have on the same outfit that I wore in the Deseret News marathon? That is because I only have 1 official running outfit. Most of the time I run in my sweats, but this makes me look like a "REAL" runner. This is my good friend Holly, she ran the race with me. Or rather she started the race with me. She got to the finish line about 5 minutes before me. But it was still great knowing that I wasn't doing this alone.

Shawn, my sister, my brother, my mother and her husband, and all of our children were the greatest cheering squad. They made posters and signs and cheered for me all along the race route. After I passed them they would get back in the van and go another 1 mile down the road and cheer again, then went another mile and cheered again. It was wonderful! It just shows that if you have a good support system you can accomplish anything.

Don't those look like Gold medals? My kids are convinced that I won the race. I did get 6th out of 20 in my age group. Actually those are participation medals, but who cares, they still look cool. My 2 goals this race were to be under 1 hour for the 10K and to not walk, to run the entire time. Well I missed my first goal by 1 minute and 51 seconds, so sad. But I didn't walk at all. The real reason I didn't walk was because I didn't want to disappoint my family. They knew what my goals were and every time I saw them cheering for me I knew I didn't want to let them down by seeing me walk.

So if anyone wants to run next year let me know and maybe we can start the race together:) They did give away some fun stuff, better then the Salt Lake race. You got a duffel bag, a microfiber t-shirt, a bag of potatoes, and bunch of coupons for stuff around Pocatello.