Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Pictures from the last week or so!

I've gotten to do so many fun things these past couple of weeks. First of all, here are some pictures from hiking Mt. Jumbo with my good friend Hannah. It was a beautiful hike overlooking Missoula!

It's kinda hard to tell, but there were sheep on the mountain!
There were some beautiful flowers!
Then, I went on a bike ride with Lauren and Hannah and we went to the end of the Kim Williams trail...something we've all wanted to do. It's not as long as I thought, but it was really fun! On the way back we went on some side trails and I got all scratched up from running into branches and bushes! It was a lot of fun!
And, on Sunday I watched the Missoula Marathon with Lauren, Heidi, and Lauren Morey. Lauren and Heidi's dad ran the full! He did really well, finishing in 3:48. Not too bad for a 49 year old first time marathoner! We got up at 4am in order to bring him to the race, then went to different places along the course to cheer. The last half we rode bikes, which was really fun!

This was the sunrise we watched as the runners passed us. It was so pretty!
It was so early! Quick funny story...one of the first girls that passed us running went behind our car and as she passed us was like, "Don't be weirded out, but I'm going to pee behind your car." Oh the things that runners will do!
The coffee was much needed!
Mr. Cross finishing strong!
We were his loyal cheer team! It's really cool to watch a marathon and see people after they finish, just knowing how much work and time they had to put into training. It really takes a lot of will and discipline to run a marathon!

2 comments:

aure_runs said...

shoot monz i need these pictures from the marathon and our bike ride!!! maybe you could email them to me?

Monica Hartzell said...

yeah, or i'll bring them tomorrow