utah valley marathon: 3:55

the third day of bishka's visit david ran in the utah valley marathon!  he's been training hard and steady this year, sticking with a training schedule, losing 40-ish pounds, and ran a fast 1:30 half marathon 6 weeks prior to the marathon...and then ended up with something along the lines of tibial-fracture-runners-knee-posterior-tibial-tendonitis-strained-calf-illiotibial-band syndrome (tfrkpttscibs syndrome for short).  that landed david right into the physical therapist's office three days a week for muscle stripping, deep muscle massage, electrical muscle stimulation, and lots of epsom salt baths at home.  needless to say, he was in quite a bit of pain up until 10 days before the marathon.  as it was, david crossed the finish line at 3:55--beating his last year's time by 10 minutes, and setting a new family record!  it must have been the shaved legs that made him that much more aerodynamic...

pace was very excited to pick up the packet with david!

breakfast of running champions:  banana with crunchy peanut butter

camped out at the finish line, waiting to see daddy!

here he is!

we also got to see progress on the new provo city temple, right off center street.  they have the entire tabernacle on stilts while they are digging what will be the underground parking garage!  how cool is that?!

(i didn't have time to shower and change after running my 10 miles that morning--good thing i fit in with all the other sweaty runners!)

nothing better than hanging out in the inflatable pool at home later that day!
pace also spent the rest of the afternoon making "race shirts" for everyone.  he found word cards from a game we have (word fragments that you put together to form full words), found the scotch tape, and handed everyone a word fragment card with a piece of tape so we could all tape them on the front of our shirts, like the race number david had on his shirt.  "look!"  pace exclaimed very happily, "race shirt!"

and just because these faces are hilarious...