St. George Marathon 2011

For the third year in a row we headed to St. George the first weekend in October for the marathon.  Jason had been training with our coach, Paul Pilkington, all summer and was in the best shape he had been in for years.  I was so excited to see him race!  Just like last year, we were in the middle of a heat wave.  Add on top of that, the emotions from the previous week when his grandpa passed away, and it didn't turn out to be an ideal weekend for him.  While it wasn't his best race, he did an amazing job finishing in 2:52, just two minutes off his best time.  Marathon running can be so challenging because even though you do everything you can to prepare for the race there are so many outside conditions out of your control that affect your performance.  As runners we always want to run a PR but a lot of times the only thing we can say is that we gave it everything we could that day.  I thought he did a great job and he was excited to place 8th in his age division.

The kids had fun making signs while we were waiting for him.

The night before the marathon I took the kids to see The Little Mermaid at Tuacahn.  We left home later than we had planned and hit traffic a good part of the drive and I started to worry we would miss the play.  Once we got there we all had a lot of fun.  The kids loved it although Kaitlyn was a little scared of Ursula.  Here they are with Scuttle after the play.