Running with the bears

For our first long run, some of us were up in Beaver for the Beaver Bash Baseball tournament.  We thought it would be really fun to run up Beaver canyon.  It is so beautiful.  It was a really nice, early run because one of our son's (I won't mention whose) had an 8 a.m. game.  We met at the base of the canyon at 6 am.  We ran up half of what our scheduled run for the day was and back down. 
Later when Ebbi told her brother-in-law, a local of Beaver where we ran, he told her there were bears up there.....  WHAT!!!  Mountain lions, Bears..  we like to run in the face of danger!  (more on the mountain lions, I'm sure, to come) 

Week one long run down....  16 to go!!!  17 if you count the actual marathon as a long run...  ha ha

I ran a couple of miles further then some, so I had to have a little quicker pace.  Plus I was trying out my new run, since I have fallen victim to having to have Physical Therapy on my leg.  My new run makes me have to concentrate more and running and talking with others probably would have caused me to run too casual and therefore run wrong!  Several people just camp off the road up this canyon.  It was a little scary to run past Ax Murders vans and not feel a little scared.  I guess you could say, my imagination gets the best of me most days.  Beautiful run, with some amazing, beautiful people.  Yep that would be my husband that jumped in on this run with us!  Although I have to say that most of that run was uphill, Ebbi told us it would be rolling hills! Next week we will have an adventure in Richfield.  Gotta love baseball tournaments.