Happy Birthday Caleb!

Yesterday was Caleb's birthday! He was such a good sport. His birthday turned out to be mostly about what other people want... for instance... Nathan and I ran the Provo River Trail Half Marathon in the morning. And Gavin was the one that decided that Dad should have a spiderman and batman cake, and that he really wanted to buy Dad a Batman action figure.

You can guess who has spent the most time playing with this so far, and when we ask him to let Dad see it, he says, "Dad, you need to share your new toys." Caleb and I did go to see The Dark Knight last night while the boys stayed with the neighbors. It was pretty entertaining, though kind of long.

Friday night, we stayed at Nathan and Stacy's to shorten the early morning drive to the race, and also had Caleb's birthday cake and ice cream. This was my sad attempt at a Spiderman cake... really it is just a cake with a bad looking spider web. Oh well, it tasted pretty good and Caleb didn't seem to mind.The Provo River Trail Half Marathon turned out to be a really scenic and pretty race, but also really unorganized. We started about 20 minutes later than planned, so that meant that our early rising cheering squad was actually waiting for the slower runners, like us, for a very long time. Here they are being good sports.
This is a funny pose. Henry looks so old.
My goal for this race was not to throw up. And I made it... yea! I still ended up coming closer to puking than I would have hoped, so I guess my plans for the future are to figure out how to avoid getting sick at all on long runs like this. I was also able to shave off a few minutes on my running time and the unofficial time was 2:10. About 9 minutes of improvement. Though the biggest improvement was in the way that I felt while running this. I am certainly stronger that I was before, and that's enough for now.

Gavin and I after the race.

So far this year I have run 397 miles.