Hog and Jog

What could be more fun than a 5K when you get to eat bacon?!  We decided to sign up and participate in the Hog and Jog 5K in Ivins.  The advertisement on the radio said there would be tons of bacon and you could eat all you wanted.  This was what we used to get Ethan to come with us.

We went the night before and picked up our packets which included pig noses, bright pink shirts, and our numbers.

Check out the tail on the back!

Saturday morning we woke up early, went to Unity Park, and got ready to run.  We didn't get the memo that we were supposed to wear our pig shirts so we were a little out of place.  There were a lot of people!  We went north past Unity Park to the Ivins City Cemetery and then all around coming back to the park.  They said that there would be bacon "all along the way at aid stations" so Ethan was banking on there being food along the way.

We got the first, and only, aid station and the girl with a huge smile on her face, handed us cups.  Inside the cup was about 1 Tablespoon of bacon bits.  THAT was the bacon?!  Ethan was NOT amused.  He was so hilarious after that. "Did you see the smile on her face?  She was grinning because she knows that they are pulling a fast one on everyone with those dumb bacon bits!"  I was dying laughing.

When we got to the finish line they had cups of real bacon, bacon wrapped pizza, donuts with bacon on them, and water.  But at 9:00 in the morning, you don't want to eat your fill of bacon wrapped pizza.  Oh well, we got our pig shirts and pig snouts.  It was a fun Saturday morning.