Mt. Marathon Year #3

On my way down to Seward, I stopped in Anchorage to spend time with Heather, Paul, Coal and Teal. Coal has been learning important names, such as mama and papa's names. In response to 'Where do you live?', he replied very enthusiastically, 'I live in Africa!!!!'. Hopefully he never gets lost and sent to Africa.

Coal working it for the camera

I'm a maniac, maniac!!! I might have dated myself with that leg warmer reference.

Teal is 5 months now and such a cutie!

She just oozes cuteness

I went for a lot of beach walks with the Seward ladies.

4th of July beach with Pam, Beaté, Grace and Ann

Tonsina with Ann & Jill

Mt. Marathon. 1.5 mile, 3022 ft ascent

at the top with Beaté on a training run

Beaté on the descent

I can't believe this guy ran the race in a gumby outfit. And I'm pretty sure his time was a lot faster than mine!

This is Fred Moore. This year was his 42nd year. He ran it in 1:09:45. Amazing.

I had a good race. My endurance improved from last year. But my time didn't. HAH. I didn't stop at all like I did last year but when I got to the top, I decided to have fun going down and not go all out which probably slowed me down. But I wanted to enjoy the descent because I love it so much - feels like flying. One of the Mountain Turtles passed me on the way up - she is almost twice my age! It was a very humbling experience. What an inspiration. I will mention that I passed her on the way down.

Baby Grace. Beaté had her in March and ran the race in a respectable time!

Taking a walk along the waterfront with Mt. Alice in the background

Tonsina dog fun

Emma J misses the ocean, too

I had a great trip! Wonderful to see everyone. I even got some work done, too! I'm not sure if I can continue to participate in Mt. Marathon for the next 7 years in order to get grandfathered in but I'll try! Missing the ocean and mountains in south central AK.