Took A Little Trip And Took A Little Run

This past weekend Audrey and I got to take a mini-vacation down into Southern Utah, and more specifically Moab. We left Kemmerer on Thursday morning in 30 degree weather and snow, and made it down to Moab around 2:00 p.m. where it was a little overcast and 60 degrees. We stayed at the Riverside Oasis Campground in one of their cabin rentals. When I made the reservation I really didn't have a whole lot of an idea of how big they were, I just knew they were really cheap, and that worked for me!

The "Saloon" Cabin

And instead of saying that it was really small, we will refer to it as "cozy". Once we unpacked our belongings and made the "cozy" little shack feel like home, we headed into downtown Moab to walk around and check out all the shops. Since we were driving all day it felt good to get outside and move around.

Walking along Main Street

Bucking Bronco!

The Bucking Bronco was also a little "cozy".

Friday was a nice relaxing day. Had breakfast at our little nook, and made coffee with our French Press (which by the way if you don't have one of these, you need to buy one right now). We decided to drive around a little bit and then maybe do a little rock climbing as well. Nothing too serious because one of the other reasons we were in Moab was for a race. Which I will get to a little later.

Park in Moab.

On the climb.

Looking back down.

Headed down.

The tahoe!

Almost there.

 After we did some climbing and walking around we headed over to Moab Coffee Roasters for a little coffee. It was a very interesting coffee shop that was combined with a middle eastern clothing store, but the coffee was really good. We both got Americanos. They also had Gelato which looked too good to pass up, and we were on vacation after all. It was so relaxing to sit and talk and drink coffee and not really have to be anywhere else.

The Grasshopper was really good!

Coffee faces?

We were supposed to run the Moab Marathon on Saturday, but it was supposed to be 25 degrees and snowing at the top, not real well organized, extremely windy with gusts up to 40 mph, and we had to check out of our "cozy" cabin by 11:00 a.m. So I knew that there was a trail race on the same day, we called the director to make sure they were doing "day of" race registration and he said yes.
The race is called the Amasa Back Trail Run which is ran on the Amasa Back Trail. Pretty straight forward. The race started at 8:00 a.m. and was nestled in a canyon along the Colorado River. So the wind was not bad and the temps were higher because we were at a lower elevation than the start of the marathon.
The course was amazing! Running along slick rock and technical single track trails. The first 4 miles were all going up and the last two went down bombing along the Colorado River. At the very end of the race we had to cross a river that had risen up pretty high, it was almost chest deep in one place!