Top of Utah Marathon

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” -Mahatma Gandhi

This quote explains everything that I personally experienced Saturday morning.

Preston, Meranda and I all ran the Top of Utah Marathon. 26.2 Miles! We all finished in under 5 hours.

The morning started at 4:45. We woke up and got ready to go run. We picked up Meranda and headed to the park to catch the bus up the canyon.

When we reached the top we thought we'd us the port-o-potty before heading to the starting line, yeah so did everyone else! There were huge lines! While waiting it started to pour down rain! About 5 minutes before the race started it stopped raining. There were so many people running!! There were well over 3000 runners!

As we made our run down the canyon, it was perfect running weather, cloudy and cool just the way we like it. Half way down the canyon the medical staff on bikes were stopped and told us that we were about to run into a major rain storm. We felt like we'd jumped in to a swimming pool with everything on and desided to go run we got so wet from the rain. After that it started to hail and there was lightning and thunder as well, but we made it safely through. We ran the first 17 miles and then did an alternation between a run and a walk to the end.

We were able to see The Woods cheering us on at different points in the race that really helped keep us (mostly me) going.

At the end of the race they announced our names and where we were from over the PA and both the Clemmers (my parents) and the Woods (Cindy, Evan, and Parker) were at the end to cheer us in. We got awesome medals and some massages at the end!

We finished in 4:58:31 under 5 hours!!! Not bad for a first marathon!

I said I will never run another marathon again, but who knows maybe I'll change my mind as soon as I forget how sore I am. Preston, of course, says he's going to keep running them.

Glad that's it's over. We now get to start preparing for a Halloween Half in October. :)

Also we got to end our amazing Saturday with the U dominating BYU! =)

*some pictures will be coming soon from the marathon*