Salt Flats Half Marathon

The second annual Salt Flats Half Marathon was held on September 4th, 2010.  The scenery is absolutely spectacular and because the venue is completely flat, you can actually see the curvature of the earth!  Some might say "13 miles, out and back, completely flat...a little boring?"  NO WAY!  The experience is unlike any other race on earth!  Put it on your bucket list.  You won't be disappointed!

We even had one of our participants fly in for the event from Ogden, Utah and land his plane right on the salt.  Honestly, what race can boast that??

But probably the best part of the event for us is setting up the course.  We blast the music in our car, Josh sits on the back and puts out cones every 1/4 of a mile so that during the race, our participants won't wander off the race course onto the ungroomed salt.  When we get to the end of the course and our car is empty of any cones, we drive back to the starting line as fast as we can in our mini-van.  Okay, so we don't set any land speed records, but it still is fun!



And our shirt this year?

What could be better than that??



We Need A Truck!

Imagine staying up all night, packing a trailer full of water jugs, cones, tables, mile markers, etc, etc, so that you could leave the next morning for a half marathon on the Bonneville Salt Flats...

and this is what you see after you have driven out of your driveway at 7:00 in the morning (after staying up all night, mind you) with the sounds of "scraaaaaaaape" on the pavement:

It's not the best feeling.

To make matters worse, on the way home from the Salt Flats, my parent's had asked us to bring home a mattress for them (assuming we would put it in the trailer) but as you see from the first picture, there was no room for a mattress, so sadly, it went on top of the minivan...



Apple Dumpling Gang or desperate for a truck or both?  You decide!