WWU - Race Pictures!Easy Weight Loss

Waiting to see official race pictures is always an interesting thing - on the one hand, you hope for something good, but on the other hand, once you've seen your first batch of race pictures, you realize that timing is everything with them - if the photographers get you when your foot is pushing off rather than landing, you look entirely different...and not in a good way.  I remember, several years ago, a runner posted pictures from different angles and she went from looking amazing to looking like a lump of goo, which made me feel a bit better about my race pictures.  So I've worked to adjust my expectations of the official race pictures over the years, and at this point, I hope to get one, just ONE, where I look halfway decent.  With that preface, I present to you my race pictures from the last two races I ran.

First up are the Aramco Houston half marathon pictures.  These are from Marathon photo, and are quite expensive.  I waited until they offered a download special and bought a couple of them.  Most of mine on the course ended up being taken when I was walking - hey, it happens when you do intervals - or else toward the end when I looked like the walking dead, even when I was running.  My vanity will not let me pay real money for those shots, so this is what I bought:

My running peeps, in the corral before the race.  I made prints for everyone, so we all have a good picture of us looking nice before the sweatfest began.

My finisher picture - you can't really tell from this shot that I had spent the last mile running in a full-on downpour.  Very happy and proud runner here - half marathon #10, done.

Next up are pictures from the Missions Heritage 10,000, which are all free - yes, FREE.  It's just another nice perk that the race organizers give their runners, and I really appreciate that, being the picture-lover that I am.

Julia, with the rose window in the background.

Last year at Mission San Jose, a group of volunteers were throwing rose petals up in the air to run through.  This year, they were doing it again, only now I understood why - there is a rose window at the mission.  Ahhh, connection made!  Cary, Diane, and I decided to run through the roses separately in hopes of getting a good picture - yes, we had our priorities straight for the race.  We all got some good shots:

 Cary

 

 Diane

Me...check out the woman behind me - it's impossible to not run through a shower of rose petals without feeling like a superstar!

Even the monk couldn't resist!

I mentioned in my race recap that the hills toward the latter part of the race were rough, which is why I was shocked to see such a good shot of us as we ran up one:

I love this picture!  Smiling faces, conquering that hill.  OK, there was some cussing along the way, but we look strong here!

Finish line - boy was I happy to get there.

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After all of these race pictures, I don't have a long run to recap for you because Jeff and I played hooky last weekend and went to Dallas to visit Allie, so no running for us.  I still got my weekday running in, though.  I'll be back on track this weekend - Diane has 16 miles on tap, so I'll be running part of that with her - not sure how much, but it will be an adventure, no doubt.

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