Oscar and Robie Creek 2010

4/17/10

The day finally arrived to run Robie Creek!  Oscar has been training for this race about 5 to 6 times a week, which has been exhausting to me, but he says he's been feeling great!  I wasn't able to go and watch since the race takes place in the hills and there is no parking, so I had to rely on others for some pictures of him.  The race is 13 miles with 8 miles uphill and the last 5 down.  It has been dubbed the hardest half marthon in the northwest!  So why did Oscar decide to run it??  Beats me, but he does have a tendancy to push himself to do hard things.

Before the race with his buddies Bryce DeForest and Vaughn Sitts, looking pretty cheeful huh. (the date on the picture is wrong it should say 04/17/2010)

During the race....  Oscar said at about mile 6 he was not enjoying himself much and was looking for a place to through himself down and quit.  But, then he saw people at the watering stations cheering him on, someone with a mister (spray thing), a man with a hose, and of course someone with a CAMERA!!  So he perked right up *smile*

At the finish line....
What would a finish be without Oscar dancing across it???

After the race....  He had 4 pepsi's, 2 gatorades, 2 waters, 2 chocolate milks after the race!!  He said right before the race started he had to pee, but he didn't go.  During the race he drank at every watering station and had all that at the end.  He came home 3 hours later and still he didn't have to pee!  I'd say he was pretty dehydrated!!

His goal was to finish the race in 2 hours 20 minutes.  His final time was 2 hrs, 24 mins 31 secs!  GREAT JOB!!!