are you ready to rumble?

Tom can officially check a half marathon trail run off his running to do list.

The trip to the Uwharrie Rumble wasn't quite as an adventure as the last uhwarrie run thankfully, we got there with a half hour to spare, just as planned!

It took us a about 5 minutes to hike to the campsite where the race start was. Not too bad, but it feels like a lot longer with 2 kids and all their gear to keep them entertained for the 2 hours daddy would be running.

waiting for daddy (8k finishers in the background)

two very spoiled children...

It was a nice day thankfully cool in the morning, though it did get warmer as the race went on.

After their snack, the kiddos had a whole lotta fun running around and playing in the old fire pit I accidentally put all our stuff next to, so they of course got good and dirty toward the

end.

3 juice boxes

2 bags of cheese cubesand

100 goldfish later

daddy crosses the 8 mile mark

He still had 5 to run after this! The kids started to get really anxious about this point, Jonas still a little jealous that he wasn't running, Hayley getting increasingly dirty, hot, and tired.But about 40ish minutes later..

the very very dirty miss hayley

what happens when a very sweaty sticky daddy gets hugged by the sooty 4 year

old

13.1 miles worth of trail and dust

13.1 miles of rocky, hilly, dusty, trail and all in 1:50:49

14th over all and 2nd in his age group

after her baby wipes bath

Hayley didn't even make it out of the campsite before she fell asleep.

Even though I'm not the one running (yet!) I enjoy trail running spectating more than road running spectating. Sure there is more to do when while waiting during the races that are in towns, but with trail running there is more to see. The kids get to play outside in the dirt and no one gives chastising looks to the mom who is letting her kids play in the dirt. The time in the outdoors is great. It's so much quieter and not nearly as competitive. Runners encourage each other as others pass them. It's all around a friendlier sport.

Back track to saturday..

Saturday, Tom and I celebrated our 6th anniversary. We didn't do too much, which was fine, we know sunday was going to be a very long day so we didn't want to do it over do it.

Tom worked on his wagoneer and thankfully he and our neighbor got the problems in it worked out, so we hope. The big test will be when tom attempts to start it tonight.

They had put in a new alternator but it still wasn't working, at it turns out the 'new' alternator they had picked up was just as bad as the old one. Then they fixed the 2 bad wires, hopefully this will keep the battery from draining and dying every day. They also noticed that it was missing it's choke, meaning no gas was getting to the carborater, so they put in a manual choke last night, and it started right up!

My jeep should be getting it new engine put in next week. Thank the Lord for neighbors that weld! Then if we can get the Chief figured out, we'll be sitting pretty.

For those that don't know, the Chief is our newly acquired '79 cherokee chief. Tom got it so that he could have a car that actually drove while they were figuring out the wagoneer's electrical problems, but now Chief is having problems.

But, I'm confident that Tom and Justin can figure out whats up.

yes, I am confident..