The Running Man

The runners

brothers embracing after finishing their feats

Our Little Ohana

Uncle Brent entertaining Landon

Chase, Payton, and Cam treating us to the gun show

Me, Kyle, and Nick (half pictured) at mile 21, providing some encouragement for Kyle

Team Scotty!

Team Kyle!

The group of supporters! Mom White is behind the camera and I'm pretty sure Nick was busy giving me directions in this picture. We made it just in time to see Scott coming in thanks to her!

I am finally getting to post about Kyle's first marathon, thanks to Chase waking up at 5:20 am! I wanted to go back to sleep after I put him back in his bed and told him he was only allowed to wake up if the sun was awake, but when I laid back down all I could think about was what I needed to get done today. We have around 4 showers, birthday parties, and receptions coming up over the next 2 weekends; I have YW in Excellence in a week and a half, YW stake rodeo this weekend, taking the kids to story time at the library, and lots of shopping for the various events! Makes me want to take a nap just thinking about it. I thought I would take some time to post about this momentous occasion on behalf of my studly and super awesome husband.

So we made a little trip up to Layton Utah a couple weekends ago where Kyle participated in his first marathon, the Layton Marathon. He ran it with his brother Scott, who did the half marathon due to a knee injury. Can you believe that?! I can barely imagine running 13.1 miles without an injury much less with a sore knee! We were very proud of Uncle Scott! It was the marathon's virgin run and surprisingly seemed to go off without a hitch, at least to us. The "loot" bag was a little disappointing...OK a-lot-a disappointing considering it contained no LOOT just the technical shirt. The spread afterward was not very impressive either, but other than those things it was a great run for being their first year. I appreciated that it was small and we were able to catch Kyle at a few different places. I made shirts for the boys and myself with iron on letters and heat transfer paper and we sported them with pride! Kyle finished with a time of 5:03:(not sure about sec's) and he was pretty sore but didn't feel too bad all around. He seemed like he felt a lot better after doing his marathon than he did after he finished his 1/2 which is surprising. He recovered relatively quickly with just a little stiffness and is thinking about his next marathon already. He's crazy, but man we are proud of this lunatic! What an accomplishment it is to be able to say that you've run a marathon?! One that I don't know if I'll ever be able to say I've achieved. Ask me after I've run a 1/2 and we'll see how I feel about a full.

We really are so proud of you Kyle. You put in the blood, and sweat and trained so hard for it and you did it! You are an inspiration to many and we look forward to the great things we will see you accomplish in the future. Congratulations to our running man daddy! We love you!

Here are a few pictures from the marathon. I couldn't find our camera ANYWHERE in our bags the morning of the race, so all the pictures are courtesy of Mom White, Christina White, and Nicole White. Thanks for capturing the memories!