Went to "pace" Erin in the Halloween 1/2 today. Got there early enough to drive all the way up to Sundance and see the runners standing around waiting. Then we drove down to the Sundance resort to wait and be out of the way of the start. We figured it was about 2.5 miles from the start. So we hung out there {me, Scott, and Stacie} Scott kindly drove us again. He is really nice to keep doing that for me. Anyway, Erin was dressed up with a few other girls as the Popeye gang. Erin being Popeye herself. It was cute. So we ran with her about 3miles and were paced around 9:30 at that point. I needed to pee really bad so I sprinted down to the porta pottie and ran behind it to go so that when Erin made it that far, I would be done. I finished just in time. phew. Around there, Stacie took off ahead of us. I told her to go, I was planning on staying with Erin, but Stacie was wanting to really run her own pace, so she was gone. We came out of the Alpine Loop canyon and crossed to the pathway down Provo Canyon and one of Erin's friends was sitting on a rock, injured. She had tripped on a twig and rolled her ankle. I told Erin to go ahead and I would wait with her and get her help. We called her husband to come to the rescue. {glad I had my phone} She took off her shoe to see her ankle and it was already pretty swollen, I felt sad for her. She had to drop out at that point. There was no way she could continue. Anyway, after waiting for a bit, I took off running, knowing full well there was no way I was going to catch Erin at that point but I wanted to get in a few more miles before I had Scott come and pick me up. So I ran by myself in a race I wasn't even supposed to be in and enjoyed the costumes and scenery. After I got past Bridal Veil falls, I called Scott to come get me and I took off away from the race route and ran down the Highway until Scott got me. Then he took me down to mile 11 where I waited for Erin to show up again and I was able to run her in the last 2 miles. I was really happy I found her again. She finished at 2:12 {clock time} It will be interesting to see what her chip time will be. I was happy for her, she was kind of hatin' it and kept saying to me "I want to be done" or
"how much longer?" I filled her full of positive affirmations and pulled on her arm a bit. I made her speed up that last mile, I could tell she was wanting to punch me a little, but I know all too well how that feels to finish a race and know you could have pushed harder in the end. The difference of one minute..ya know? So I didn't let up on her. Anyway, It was interesting. It was alot of fun to not have it be MY race and have that stress. I think maybe I will run every race like that from now on. Just not sign up, then I don't have the pressure! : ) {not really} but its a nice thought. Beautiful route, loved the costumes, and loved waking up on another Saturday to a fun run. My favorite costume I saw, was a guy dressed up like Tom Cruise in Risky Business. He had on really short white shorts that looked like tighty whitey's, a white button up dress short hanging over the shorts, sunglasses and brown hair. It was awesome. I laughed pretty hard. There were alot of Devils,cats, and ballerinas. Which I get, bc all those require very few layers and not too much to get in the way. Fun, Fun race though, I will have to do it next year for real. Oh! And Stacie saw Allie as a pacer..I didn't see her but I thought that was pretty cool. How cool is she that she just gets to be a pacer in other peoples struggling races!! What a fun thing to be able to be. So party Halloween race! Happy Happy Running!!
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