Hazler-Victor Birthday Palooza

The Hazler-Victor b-day party at the Leftover Turkey Trail Run. WOW! Look at all these people coming to their party? Boy are we popular!!

 

 So for their B-day weekend the Hazler-Victor duo decided to go up to the Leftover Turkey Trail Run at Eagle Creek State Park. Cue marathon flashbacks....GO!  

We came armed with warm clothes, snacks, cameras, picture phones, garmins, etc.....just a little jaunt through the woods! And at the end we got beer. I decided to forgo the running part and just skip right to the party...after taking pictures and cheering for my friends! Go go go!

 Erin is laughing about the yellow gloves that Debbie brought...putting on the peer pressure to leave them behind. Poor Debbie was FREEZING! Ah though..peer pressure won. They were some pretty awesomely huge yellow gloves though. :-)

OH and for those of you worried..she had another pair of gloves to wear. Debbie always comes prepped for the cold!

 Here are many pictures of my poor freezing friends pre-race. I was happy to be dressed in my regular clothes and jacket yesterday. It was really cold. I was hoping this was not a pre-curser to Tecumseh weather. If it was I was coming to the race with a heater on my back.

 Debbie doing her calisthenics while waiting for the race to start. Rachel and Eugene waiting too. I loved Rachel's candy cane striped socks!

 IS THE RACE STARTING?? IS IT? IS IT? DO WE GET TO RUN NOW AND WARM UP?

...never mind.....false alarm.......

come on come on come on~

 YAY they are heading to the start line! I am following them trying to get a few pictures of them. I had unfortunately not brought good replacement batteries for the camera so oooooops. I tried to put the "new" batteries in it and it died. BUMMER.

But I got a few good pictures and the rest was absconded from Christy Victor's lot. Thanks Christy!!
 


 It was time to start....almost...first the 1 mile group runners had to start then five minutes after that the 5K and 10K runners got to start. Matthew from Planet Adventure made his announcements and talked about the course. Matthew is a dear...he always gives me a nice hug and it is fun because when I go to Planet Adventure events they know me so it is cool to have people say "Hi Heather" on the microphone and stuff. :-) 

 I got one picture of Gino running up this massive hill. Unfortunately by the time I got ready to take the pictures of the ladies my camera ran out of batteries RIGHT THEN.....such luck eh?

 Here was Aaron Victor coming up the hill too. This was actually a good place for me to sit as the runners coming up this hill needed encouragement so I would clap and yell and say Hey Runners!! Doing a great job! And some of them said "You are just what we need here!"  I love encouraging people especially on gnarly hills like this. IT is great to look up and see someone cheering you on up the hill. Even though I didn't get a picture of the girls at least I got to cheer them up the hill.

The ladies are coming through into our power arch. SCREW the AWARDS...it was time to show props to our tired runners. 

They came through with their usual flair. GREAT JOB! Not bad time for how hard the course was. Cue more marathon flashbacks......

ha ha just kidding.

MAN look at Debbie flying through that finish line! She looks as good at the end of the race as she looked at the beginning.

SO I was happy to be there to celebrate with my friends and encourage them into the finish line. And beer...fun...awesomeness...and a chance to burn off some of our holiday calories. Well THEY did. I just added some to mine. At least I ran that morning!  And today. JUST LOVE MY FRIENDS! They are awesomeness in a package of more awesomeness tied with a ribbon of awe......you know what I mean.