Running log

I have 25 days! 25 days! until my half marathon. I'm excited and nervous all at once. I have a long time to have those feeling inside of me. That makes me want to train harder.
Saturday (25th) My schedule said that I needed to go 7 miles. So I went 7 miles. It felt great. I was so happy that I went that far. That was the most I had ever gone 6.5. When I was telling my SIL about running 7 miles and that the next week I was going to run 8 miles, she said well you have only three weeks until the race you need to up your mileage more than a mile. She said you should try going 10 miles.
Since we have a bunch of hills around here. I didn't want to run 10 miles and have to run part of it up hill back home. I planned out my route that had some hills but that part home would be downhill. Plus Mike wouldn't have to pick me up. Well when I told Mike my plan he didn't like that one of the roads I was planning to run on had no sidewalk. So I had to re-think my plan.
My other SIL wanted to go running on Saturday so I made a plan that we could met up and then finish my run together. Mike would pick us up at the end. We made plans to met at the library. I told her I would be there at 7:45pm well, I was a bit slower than I had planned. I was carrying a water belt on me so I think that slowed me down a bit. While she waited she ran up and down the road. We met up and finished our run.  Her five miles really turned into 8 miles and I did 10.2 miles. Mike was waiting for us with water and towels. I felt good after the run but after showering my body was hurting.
My SIL's and I are running in a race next week. It's an all Women's race. We are doing a 10k. I think it will be really fun. It's suppose to rain and be really cold. Yeah Fall is finally here.
I sure wish though with all this running, I could lose some weight. I keep hearing I have to give up the chocolate. I don't think I can do that. I have limited myself to two bars and just handfuls of M&M's, not a bag. That is improvement right?
Though I hate starting the run the feeling after wards is nice. (Well not the sore legs.)

Ragnar/ Scout camp

Mike ran Ragnar on June 18-19th. He did fantastic. Last year he made the commitment to get there. I wanted to do it too, but I was nervous about running that much. So when his sister was trying to get a team together all the people that said that wanted to run back out, including me. Mike ran with her and her husband  and some of their neighbors. They were the Gingerbread Men.

Heather mad an awesome Gingerbread costume. Mike wore it, not when he was running, but around the exchanges. He would pass out gum drops to people. I was the teams volunteer. I didn't get to see the team anywhere but I got to see all the other people that were crazy. I got to call in runners along with writing down the numbers and times of the runners at the exchange. (not all at the same time) I loved the Spirit of the Ragnar. I will get that good to run next year.

Since Mike's sister and husband were running I watched the kids when I got home from volunteering. My niece watched the kids when I was gone. The next morning we woke up and went to Park City to met them when they finished. Mike was the 12th runner, He would be finishing the race and I wanted to see it. My other sister in law came with me. It was nice to have someone else there to help keep track of everyone. We waited and waited and no Mike. I got a call from him telling me that they were behind. So we waited some more. Finally we saw him make it up the hill to the finish. Of course I was crying for joy for him.
I'm pretty proud of him. Way to go Mike!

After the race we went home and got to enjoy the family time for a little bit before Mike was off again to Scout camp. I wasn't feeling so bad for him since he was going to my favorite place in the world.

BEAR LAKE!

He was packing up and telling me that he was going to go to La Beau's another favorite place of mine. Lucky. He and the other leader didn't have that much to worry about since they only had two boys from our ward attend scout camp this year. Phoenix told mike I want to be one of your scouts so I can go to scout camp. They all made it home safe on Saturday. 

I had to take most of the week off so that I could take care of the kids. I liked my time off. I had all these plans to get things done but I only got half done. I liked being to sit around. That is rare in my life.