We Went To Moab. One of Us Ran.
“There is a sick high in pushing your body beyond what you “think” you can!!!”
— Lady-Friend, 2011
So you know my [insert gushing/fawning adjective here] Lady-Friend likes to run. Not a “Hey, I enjoy a leisurely jog around the block” kind of run– I’m talking “Wow, this shearing pain up my leg feels terrible but man I feel ALIVE… I wonder if I can rub another dinner plate-sized blister into my foot by mile 32″ kind of run. And hey- that’s cool. There’s something euphoric and therapeutic about that. So I hear.
But man, that’s one of a million things that make Lady-Friend an inspiration, tougher than me on my best day and pretty much one-in-a-million. So kids in tow, we took an 8 hour road trip to Moab Utah last weekend for the Moab Half Marathon (8 hours !? But you thought Moab was only 4 and a half from our place? Yeah, don’t ask… but it involves no map, relying on GPS and two missed exits… Shaddap). I was rocking the support role (IE… “I’m not running but I’ll pretend I’m doing something to compensate for the fitness guilt) while the kids pretty much rocked the “I want to do anything but be in this car” role. Which was awesome.
So the Moab Half marathon is unique in that a herd of panting, sweating, short-short wearing runners trickle through 11 miles of breath-taking canyon on a closed course and empty out on Moab’s main street, where they run past a trailer park, some dirt, a few houses and down a thoroughfare lined with a lot of cheering support-folk and their leashed dogs and kids, which is no small feat. There’s a lot of people who run this race and there’s no thinning of the pack– they stuff it from start to end. Let’s say if you wanted to take a left hand turn onto mainstreet with the half marathon going, you better have packed a lunch and a pair of adult diapers.
So, with adult diapers in tow I snapped a few pics of Lady-Friend making pony-tails look good, Iron Men look like weak-willed pansies and generally putting 13 miles of Canyon Country road to shame.
Tags: Lady-Friend, Moab half Marathon, Running
She IS an inspiration!!!……btw, you totally have it in you to run that too, dont sell yourself short mister P90 over-achiever!