Mr. Athletic

My husband never ceases to amaze me.  Yesterday he ran in the Salem Days "Fun Run" 5k (3.1 miles) and he came in with a time of 20:46 or 6:41 per mile.  The only people in my family who have run faster are my mom and older brother so this really impressed me! I ran the St. George marathon 2 years ago and was going to last year, but since I was pregnant with Alli we deferred to this year so he did his longest run ever on Friday (8.2 miles, him pushing a stroller up all the hills and most of the way).  When he came in my mom was helping at the chutes and she told him he won, he looked a little confused as he looked at the people in front of him until she clarified that he won his age group.  So he won his age group (24-29) and was 14th overall out of close to 400 people!  To top this off they had a pull up contest and he easily won that as well.  Funny enough I was trying so hard to get a picture of him running, I missed him coming in so the picture here is staged after it was finished.  I had someone hold Alli and I went across this bridge, but he had already gone past where I was on the other side and by the time I realized (from looking at the people coming past, who I knew he would beat) he had come in and gotten a drink and fruit from the place they had set up.  So when I went to pick up Alli from the lady, he husband and she asked what he had done to his arms.  Ryan and I were both confused until they clarified that his arms were really muscular, the funny thing is that he hasn't seriously lifted since the beginning of the summer, if not longer!   They told the age group and overall winners they could ride in the parade.  Ryan didn't want to, but when the "float" came by he ran up so I could take his picture.  Since he won his age group he got a medal, which Alli really enjoyed.  She was very curious when we put it on her.  It had this paper with instructions for the parade and she actually pulled this paper tag off and tried to eat it (we fished one chunk out of her mouth).  I am realizing I have to be much more careful about what is around her now because she is FAST at getting things close to her and putting them in her mouth!