Portland Shamrock Run 2010

This year for Jeffs Birthday (in December), Andy and I bought him registration for the Shamrock run! We were so excited to have a fun weekend with him!! The weekend finally got here and we had so much fun! Of course it was a week before school finished up, so we all had homework hanging over our head;) Ashleigh decided to come with us at the last minute, so unfortunately registration was closed, but we still got to spend time together, which was so fun!
Andy drove us there very efficiently (is that the right word for fast and furious:)) giving us plenty of time the first night there to call Beth and have dinner together. We went to Macaroni Grill and had wonderful food and company! Then back to the room to crash! It was Daylight Savings Time the next morning so we needed lots of sleep!
The next morning was just beautiful! The sun was shining and there was NO RAIN! We had such a great time running! The boys took pity on me and ran with me, which made it super fun for me!! The course was a bit hilly, but it always makes it for some interesting running, instead of boring flat terrain! It's also fun to run with 22,000 other people. Keeps you motivated and entertained for sure:) My favorite part was a turn that we took and you could see waves of people running... It truly always is such a great feeling to see that many people doing something hard, and accomplishing it! Even though lots of people do it faster and make it look easy, it still is hard! So much fun to be a part of it! And a beautiful day to enjoy the green scenery! What a fun day! We are so grateful for Jeff letting us spend his Birthday Gift with him!

The view out our hotel room window Sunday morning! It was truly a beautiful day!!

I can't tell you how much we adore these women! They are so much fun to be around and such inspirational women!! We had such a great night together!

This is my favorite two pictures. This is a picture of the start of the 15K, see the people all ready to go, readying their watches to time their run perfectly... So serious and ready for a hard run!!

So here is the picture of the group that we were in. They have you line up according to your pace, since there are so many runners! So they would let a wave of people go, then we would wait, then more would go... on and on! So, here is our group, with the sign showing "SLOW"! Really? We weren't that slow, come on!! Cut us some slack!! Notice we all don't have on the short shorts and no one is setting their watches! Made me laugh!!!