Thursday, July 24, 2008

Sunday, July 20, 2008

What were we thinking? (Bryce Canyon Half and Fairyland Loop)




So Camilla and I decided to run the Bryce Canyon Half Marathon like forever ago, but after our marathons we were pretty tired of running. However, we had already signed up for it so we had to run it. Actually what had happened was Camilla got mono and did something to her knee so she couldn't train like she wanted and I had just gotten back from a few weeks of being on vacation which never helps with the running thing. We drove down to Bryce Friday evening and looked for a place to pitch a tent. Little did we know that all the spots were filled, so we ended up spending the night sleeping in my car in a LDS church parking lot. It was exciting.


That morning we woke up extremely early to catch the buses and we ran our race. I didn't do as well as I'd hoped, but that's what you get for not training. Camilla did awesome for having had mono. We should have stopped right there and came home, but since we were in Bryce's National Park we had to hike. The hike that we picked was the freakin most crazy hike ever. I've never had a trail go up and down so much. It seriously felt like a rollercoaster. By the middle of the hike I felt like I was going to die. I couldn't even feel my legs, because they were literally like jello. Oh, the hike was like 7 miles, not just a little short one. Fairyland Loop however, was an awesome hike with some pretty amazing views. I would recommend it to all, unless you are running a half marathon in the morning, then I'd tell you to put it off for another week!!