Today, we did our first marathon relay with our friends, the Hastings. Our team name was the Van Hastlings (a clever combination of our names that Jake came up with). Of course, we HAD to have Van Halen logos on our team shirts. Our friend, Sarah, helped us design them and they turned out great. We got lots of compliments on them, but my favorite was a guy that told us, "I have to give props to anyone that can run in a Van Halen t shirt!"
Please ignore the googly eyed husband and the pre-race tired eyes on me! Jake ran the last leg (long hills and 8 miles in the hot 80 degree sun, 30+ mph winds) and I ran the 3rd leg (hilly Lake Fayetteville 7 miles).
Brian ran the first leg (5.5 miles with a long steep downhill followed by running all of the way back up) and Meghan ran the 2nd leg (5.75 miles of rolling hills). Meghan actually got to run about 30 seconds with Olympic marathon legend, Jeff Galloway!
The starting line...no idea where Brian is. We left on shuttles to our relay exchange points after our local weatherman, Dan, sang the National Anthem and the gun went off.
Jake bringing it home with some friends he made on the course!
How cool are we?! We had so much fun and our shirts will be ready for next year!
Today, we did our first marathon relay with our friends, the Hastings. Our team name was the Van Hastlings (a clever combination of our names that Jake came up with). Of course, we HAD to have Van Halen logos on our team shirts. Our friend, Sarah, helped us design them and they turned out great. We got lots of compliments on them, but my favorite was a guy that told us, "I have to give props to anyone that can run in a Van Halen t shirt!"
Please ignore the googly eyed husband and the pre-race tired eyes on me! Jake ran the last leg (long hills and 8 miles in the hot 80 degree sun, 30+ mph winds) and I ran the 3rd leg (hilly Lake Fayetteville 7 miles).
Brian ran the first leg (5.5 miles with a long steep downhill followed by running all of the way back up) and Meghan ran the 2nd leg (5.75 miles of rolling hills). Meghan actually got to run about 30 seconds with Olympic marathon legend, Jeff Galloway!
The starting line...no idea where Brian is. We left on shuttles to our relay exchange points after our local weatherman, Dan, sang the National Anthem and the gun went off.
Jake bringing it home with some friends he made on the course!
How cool are we?! We had so much fun and our shirts will be ready for next year!
4 comments:
The race looked so exciting and I know you were so proud to be a part of it! What did you do with your kids? I wanted to do it so badly but my husband was gone this weekend. Hopefully next year!!
Congrats, Amy and Jake! You guys look fantastic! And it looks like you all had a great time. Love the shirts and your super cool gang signs. Go Van Hastlings! :)
Looks like such fun! Awesome job!
Rosemary,
the boys went to Jake's parent's house for the night so we could do this. they live about 1.5 hours away. we could not have done it without them!
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