Color Run 2014!

Last week Brianna and I ran the Color Run that WGU paid for. It was awesome. After walk-running 3.1 miles, I got two free t-shirts and a muffin and Brianna walked away with a new pair of sunglasses, a sticker, and a temporary tattoo. All in all, a sweet deal.

We didn't get very colored, but we weren't trying as hard as many of the other runners.

There were I think five stations of colored chalk that we ran through on our way around downtown Salt Lake. Brianna and I are awesome out-of-shapers, so we walked quite a bit of it, but I still managed to get a blister from disuse of my running shoes. I should really run more.

Some of my fellow WGU runners were appropriately colored after their own jog:

It was such a fun experience that Brianna and I chatted and laughed and felt generally light-hearted the whole drive home. Once we got home and showered and washed our clothes at the laundromat, I sat down to read a book and I suddenly became overwhelmed with exhaustion. We had gotten up at 6 that morning, and I had gone to bed after midnight the night before finishing up a book I had been reading. Six hours is neither a typical amount of sleep, nor enough sleep for me, so I was DYING by that time. I crawled into bed where Josh was studying and lay down, thinking I'd close my eyes for a few minutes.

Three hours disappeared. Josh had to wake me up to watch Scarlet while he went to take a test, and I fought to shake myself out of the bizarre fog of untimely napping.

Later that night, still a bit in a fog, I was sitting on the lawn furniture of Costco while Josh was checking out our groceries and Brianna was spinning Scarlet around a lawn chair. I thought it was so funny that Scarlet kept her mouth open in amusement the whole time, so I started recording it. This is how we ended our day: