Summer 2010: All our runs!

For those of you that don't know, Curtice has become something of a runner. It's what he does. He plans his days around his running schedule. He wakes up EARLY (6 am) on the only day he can sleep in, to go running. He started running a few years ago and has slowly increased his running until he can do 10, 15, even 20 mile runs at once. In June of 2010, Curtice ran his first Marathon! He trained...

He found some fans...

And he ran!! He did a great job! The first picture is around the 13-14 mile mark and the second one is at the finish line! The kids and I were so proud of him!! You would think after accomplishing such a large feat, he'd be happy to step away and boast that he's done it once, but no, he's doing it again this year!!

In addition to his running, he signed both of us up to run a relay race called RAGNAR. For those of you that are not familiar with the organization, it's a 200 mile relay race that has 12 runners on a team. Each runner has to run 3 of the 36 legs starting early Friday morning and ending Saturday afternoon. Now that sounds like no big deal for a marathon runner, but before doing this it had been about 12 years since I had done any type of exercising except chasing my kids. Our team was called "15 kids and running.....away" (that was the number of children we had between everyone on our team). A good friend of ours was kind enough to decorate our van, representing each couple that was running . See how cute we are!!

We started the race and ran through some truly beautiful areas (although the runner on this leg may think differently!).

We all waited at the finish line and ran together the last 100 feet! What a fun experience, so fun in fact that we're doing it again this year...twice!!