Running in Seattle

Matt and I headed down to Seattle this weekend - we visited with good friends and I ran my second 1/2 marathon.  

To begin our weekend - as always when we head to Seattle - we must first wait in the border line.  We only had to wait for 1:40 this time!  Whenever we decide it's a good time to head to the states apparently so does all of Canada!  The border guard asked us four very quick questions and we were on our way!  As a reward, we stopped for ice-cream once we were in the states!

Sat. morning we were up at 5:45 - the race started at 7am.  Here we are waiting in traffic to get to the race at 6:30am on Sat morning!

This is the crowd that Matt & Ruthie had to find me in...soo many people.  There were over 21,000 participants in the 1/2 and full marathons plus all of the families!

Here I am!  This is probably 20 min post race...I had already drank one bottle of 'gatorade', one bottle of water, three orange pieces and as you can see was working on my banana.

I did it!!!  1/2 marathon #2 COMPLETE!

I came in 5536 out of 15,541 runners in my race.  11,339 of those racers were women and I was the 3218 woman to cross the line. 

This marathon was called the Rock n' Roll marathon - there were bands every mile of the race - it was rocking:)

Because the race was such an early start we still had the full day after to play in the beautiful weather.  We always have so much fun with Thomas and Ruthie.  We played a little bocce.

Went on a little nature walk.

We went to supper at BJ's.  This is Matt's NEW favorite resturant...he scouts them out in the US - whenever we go to the states he checks to see if we will be near one.  Thomas and Ruth were kind enough to take us to one in WA.  We ate WAY to much but it was sooo good!

Such a GREAT weekend with GREAT friends!