Honkers Marathon, Spoiler: We Did the Half

Back in January, Beth and Brent had one weekend where they were invited to three weddings.  In order to make it to at least 2 of the 3 they decided he would stay in Dallas and attend one and Beth would set off into the sunset with Teal to California for another wedding. 🙂

 

 

Conveniently, the California wedding was for Beth’s high school buddy who let us stay at his house each time we went out to Cali for Disneyland Half, so Teal had gotten to know him.  When we came up with the plan of the two of us going out to California based on planning to try and get pregnant we anticipated that both of us would be with child on the trip. 🙂  So that also meant we probably wouldn’t be staying up late drinking adult beverages which meant we could definitely squeeze a race into the weekend too!

 

We searched the internets and narrowed down our search to two races – we ha d a Saturday option and a Sunday option.  Turns out that Sunday’s option was the winner of the two which was Honkers Motivational Marathon.  We liked the name of the race. 😀  Annnnnd part of the logo involves a duck which Teal is named after a duck so it’s fitting, right?!

Ok, really we found out later that the logo features a goose not a duck. A Canada goose to be more specific. 🙂

Contrary to what we thought – we did stay up late both nights that weekend, but we were able to get out of bed Sunday morning anyway and made our way to Riverdale Park.

The race was on the smaller side and was entirely along the Santa Ana River Trail as well as being an out and back course.  From the beginning the plan was to stay together the whole way. 🙂

 

Off, we went!  Pretty sure we stopped around mile 1 for a potty break. The joys of running pregnant, right?  Shortly thereafter we ran by a lady whose capris were so see through we could actually see the tattoo on her butt cheek (because you know we notice these things which is why we wrote THIS blog post).

 

At one point we had a back and forth game of catch up with the course director and he said to us, “hey get your camera back out I’m going to photobomb you!” Haha, OK!  Such an encouraging guy!

 

We caught up with a runner who was out there doing the full and we offered to take a picture for her who gave us more background on the race than we knew about.  The woman who started the race was a friend of hers that wanted a way to celebrate her remission with cancer and run her……marathon (OK so it’s been to long and some of the details are foggy now and we have pregnancy brains!), so the Honkers Marathon was born!

And just like we said we would run together…..our finisher’s pictures prove that we did!  This was half no. 21 for Tealio and half no. 20 for Beeper!