One hot race and more marathons...

Only about 11 days until the marathon!

It it looking like it will be a hot one.
Luckily it starts way up a canyon, so it should be cooler...

for the first while, at least.

Until it's not anymore- and it's just hot.
My only real goal is to finish under 4 hours,

so that should get me across the line by 9:30am.

Hopefully the heat will hold off that long!

We got a few reprieves from the blazing sun.

A little summertime rain:

Oh, it was still HOT...

but the sun was covered by clouds, so it felt like a break.

(excuse the weird pic.  I couldn't find a better shot showing that it was really raining)

Moving on!

A couple of months ago,

I won a free entry to a Rock n Roll race.

(from MomsRunThisTown.com)

It could be any open race, except Vegas (the only one sort of nearby!),

Washington, DC or any of the international races.

So here I am- already signing up for marathons in 2013!

(source)

The husband has never been to Seattle, the kids will be out of school-

AND we can then drive on down to Oregon

to spend the 4th of July with my family.

Win-Win-kind of Win.

That "kind of Win" is for the husband, who doesn't really

like being away from home for that long.

I HAVE heard that this race is challenging- hills and all that.

Still, the altitude is about 5000 feet lower than where I am-

Seriously.

Maybe that will help.

I have also already signed up for the Salt Lake City 2013 marathon-

because they were having a blitz sale.

First 50 people paid $30 for the marathon.

Couldn't pass that up...

I have issues.