Muir Beach

Saturday, November 14th Jordan ran the 11k (6.8 miles) Muir Beach Trail run. This was his first trail run and he did very well! We were worried it was going to be rainy & cold when we woke up at 5:30 to rain but once we got there, the rain had stopped and it was just overcast and cool. (Like 53 degrees). We had to park about a mile away since we didn't have at least 3 runners in our car so after a vigorous walk, we met up with some friends from the ward who decided to do the run after hearing about it from Jordan.

Before the run.

I wasn't sure how long it would take him to finish because of all the steep hills in the race (1900' elevation gain) so McKay and I hung out at the finish line after the first few runners came in. McKay clapped for all the runners coming in and gave them a nice 'woo hoo'. It was fun to cheer with him. I'd have him look each time a runner came around the corner to see if it was Daddy.

When Jordan came around the corner, McKay yelled 'hi daddy' and ran out to meet him. Jordan carried McKay with him across the finish line.

The sun finally came out just in time for us to look into it for pictures.

Our family with the Eggers family. It was great to have someone to wait with while the guys ran. Their baby boy is 6 weeks old.

This is the view from Muir Overlook. The run started just up from the beach. They ran up the first hill, down the other side and up the furthest hill you can see in the picture. Then they went down around out of sight and the steepest/longest hill was just before the finish line. There was only a short distance that wasn't either going up a hill or down. It was interesting to hear runners talking after they had finished. Some do the run every year but seemed to have forgotten just how 'brutal' those hills are!

Muir Beach is a small, very nice beach. We looked at the beautiful homes with walls of windows facing the ocean and thought how nice it would be to watch the sun set over the ocean each evening. *sigh*

Move views of the beach from the beach & overlook, plus a tree with dried moss on it since we are in the dry season now.

We crossed the Golden Gate Bridge to get to Muir and McKay loved going across the bridge. Even more exciting than that though were the several tunnels we had to go through to get there and back. We'd come out of one and he'd ask for another tunnel. The simplest things are so exciting when you're 2!