I love dressing up in a costume for this race. Tree's daughter came up with the ideal of dressing up as the 3 Little Pigs, now how appropriate is that for a farmer's wife. I was totally up for that one. We decided to get pink sweat suits and ordered the nose,ears,tail of the pig off the Internet. Than Tree's niece decide to run with us, so we had to come up with a costume for her. It was to late to get another pig outfit ordered, so she ended up wearing Tree's hippie costume from last year.
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| 3 Little Pigs and a Hippie |
The race didn't start till 9, but we new we needed to get there early, because it gets very crowded at this race. We met at the Kum and Go in Desoto at 7:15 and followed each other in to Des Moines. As we are getting off on the off ramp their is a long line of cars already. Last year we parked at Living History Farms parking lot, but this year we decided to park at the hotel across the street. Last year it literally took us at least 30 to 40 min to get out of the LHF parking lot. This year it took us 10 min.
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| Rachele in the slippers and her friends that she runs with on the weekends |
The first mile we ran around LHF and than threw a tunnel that lead out to the fields and creeks. We kept a pretty steady jog. We couldn't run to fast because one of my friends that was running with us, normally doesn't run at all, but she loves doing this race. So, I told her I would stay with her. Tree's knees have been hurting when she runs, so she was OK with not pushing it to much and just having a fun time with this race this year. Tree and I would get to talking and than we would get ahead of Laurel, but we would just keep looking back to make sure that we could see her. If we couldn't see her we would stop and wait for her. Once we hit the creeks it wasn't a problem with her staying with us.
Before we hit the creeks they have this hill you can run up one side and down the other. I always have to run up it and stop and take a picture of all of us at the top.
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| On top of the Hill |
This was the first creek we came to. Their was this couple dressed up as a old man and woman. The man actually ran with a walker and the woman was running with a cane. It was a hoot to see them crossing the creek.
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| Old man and lady trying to get up the creek bed with a walker and cane |
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| Tree and Penny. So far we are clean Little Piggy's |
As we are into the race about 4 miles we are still pretty clean pigs. Everyone was telling us we were the cleanest pigs they had seen. But we let them know these 3 Little Pigs wouldn't be clean for long.
This is Tree's daughter and niece running to the finish. You can see one of the other 3 little pigs coming up behind.
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| This little piggy got dirty |
I was so happy this year that my twin sis got to come and watch me run this race. 
We had a blast this year. We're already trying to come up with a costumes for next year.
Do you like to dress up for races?
What is the funniest costume you've wore to a race?
