My Ragnar Recap

 can be found here.

love you ladies.

This Is Happiness

Yay for a tres amigas reunion!

It was so awesome to run with my faves again.

Love you girls!

Let's not let it be 3 years before we do it again shall we?

My Feeble Attempt at a Long Run

I set out on Saturday morning do accomplish two things

1) run 6 miles
2) hill train

there are some nasty inclines right around Emory's campus so I thought I'd go that way and just push myself as hard as I could.  seriously, ladies, there is one hill that is a mile long.  it's a killer.

run started out like this:

gulp.

but I made it to the top without stopping, go me.

then I ran for about 3 more miles and was too focused on trying to keep a good tempo and push up hills that i didn't stop and take pictures for you two.

until.

i came to my new favorite running place.  it's the closest place i've found that reminds me of our trails.

check it.

this

leads to this

leads to this

ahhhh.  fantastic.

the funniest part is about 3 minutes after the trail you come out on cement and BAM you're in the city again. ahhhh cities.

about 10 minutes later this happened.

what? what's that lor?  oh that's me limping.  my knee totally gave out, it was ridiculous.  so I had to do intervals of walking, running, stretching to make it the last mile and a half.  i was super discouraged by the time i came home.  it still hurts. boo.  i'm hoping my fall a few weeks ago didn't pop open the hole in my cartilage.

nonetheless, it was a beautiful run.  one i'm taking you on if either of you ever make it out my way!

sight for sore eyes

in case you ladies forgot what i look like while training for Ragnar.....

it happened to me

So Tuesday morning I ran 7 with one of my neighbor friends training for the Utah Valley Marathon. As I was walking out the door last night, I decided to grab my phone, I never run with my phone but thought. Its early and 7 miles is kind of a long time if Ty needs me. And off we went. Then mid morning I went to grab my phone, and the pocket I put it in was unzipped and surprise no phone! I finished  feeding Hayden and decided I would have to go run/drive the entire run all over again. There is no way I would find my phone just from the car, and it was cold so I would need to leave Hayden in the car...14 miles in one day Tally-ho! Within minutes I got a gmail chat message from Ty that read: "Air you there, someone just called Brad, said they found your phone, did you go somewhere? did you take it running?" AMEN to honest good people! They saved my a ton of effort, time and potentially a new phone! I fellow runner found it, a sweet girl from that running bunch I was suppose to run with last summer- such a small world :)

And if this story has you bitting at the bit- check out my blog for the post about how I left my purse in the shopping cart in Wal-marts parking lot, with $150.00 in cash, $25.00 check and Ty and mine ss cards (needed to make copies of and forgot to take them out the day before)....not to mention it was a way cute purse and I had just gotten a new fossil wallet :) the next day!

I have lost my mind! Don't trust me with anything of value, its a miracle Hayden has survived!

They're Baaaaack

My legs are jello.

Just sayin.....

Ouch

9 miles after 2 weeks of no long run hurts.

Just in case you were wondering.

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On another note, I'd like to mention that I'm so freakin' excited that Erin has decided to join us in our Ragnar craziness!!!  Woot woot! 

It is going to be epic.