The start of a new year

2016 started off great. Here are a few highlights. 

January: Attended Chanda's wedding (they finally tied the knot!). 

Ran the Orcas 25k - we stayed in the bunk houses the night before. The climb up to Mt Constitution is no joke!! Realized trail running is not my forte. 

February: Ran the West Seattle Fat Ass 25k on Super Bowl Sunday.

March: Got into the NYC Marathon!! 
             
Dustin and I volunteered at the St. Pat's Dash and both got to dress up in the blow-up leprechaun suits.

Ran the Mercer Island Half (Kati 1:53:17, Dustin 1:29:57).

                             
Went to Portland with Chanda and the girls for a bachelorette weekend 

April: Dustin ran the Deception Pass half marathon and came in 5th place! 

Dustin ran his 3rd Boston Marathon (3:04:30)

May: Went to Toronto (I had won plane tickets from work - we decided on Toronto because it was far away and we hadn't been there before)

We started the trip at the Kensington Market and found some vegan crepes.

We drove to Niagara Falls for two nights and had an awesome room at the Hilton overlooking the falls (can't find the photo... epic fail). 

We went on a very hot 16 mile run. 

On a different run, we ran past a lone goose who then started to chase us!!

We went on the very touristy, but awesome, boat tour of the falls. 

We went back to Toronto for a few nights, ate some delicious food (including the infamous vegan "Big Mac" at Doomies), at Toronto FC game, and a Toronto Blue Jays game. 

June: I ran the Fremont 5k relay with some awesome folks from Brooks. We were the baby monkeys (based on a very funny YouTube video) and Robyn made fantastic shirts for the occasion.

 The next morning, Dustin ran the Chuckanut marathon and took 3rd place!