Monday, July 28, 2008

This past weekend

I was not in a good mood Saturday morning when I woke up. I didn't get a good night sleep and have no idea why I just couldn't sleep. But I woke up at 6:30 and knew I had a list of things to do before I hit the pavement. I had to throw into a slow cooker, 6lbs of pork and BBQ mix. As I was making the BBQ mix, I decided that I couldn't substitute 3/4 cup of ketchup with BBQ sauce. So, I drove to the Kwik Trip one mile away from my parents house (as we were there to celebrate my daughters 2nd birthday) to buy ketchup at 6:40am. They must have thought I was insane. Anyway, I drove back and finished putting everything together in the crock pot. I then woke up Greg and finished getting dressed to run. I saw that my mother was up and informed her that the kids were still sleeping. As I was ready to get the car keys to go, Greg told me he thought we should just run around Hokah for our 12 mile run. I was annoyed. I was planning on running the trail again. Running on CTY 7, CTY 26 and CTY 16 would be hot. But I gave in with a bunch of grumbling and we walked down the hill to the road.

County Road 7 wasn't bad. Greg wore his GPS Timex watch which told us the mileage and how fast we were running. It was very peaceful and scenic. We had a couple of dogs bark at us and one goat "muahhhh" at us on our run. It was shocking how easy it was to run. I was even running with my new water bottle and had no problems. In fact, I would recommend Ultimate Direction Access Water Bottle for anyone looking for a water bottle and pocket. http://www.runningunlimited.com/asp/product.asp?pid=594 The run was very uneventful and traffic was really light. We saw lots of dead frogs along our way and at one point I thought a blackened banana peal was a frog carcass. It helped keep the run light and entertaining. The whole route from my parents driveway to Cty 26 to Cty 16 to Cty 7 and to their house again was 7.5 miles. So we ran back down toward Cty 26 and over the bridge and back to round out 12 miles. We finished 12 miles in 2 hours 11 minutes and 11 seconds. So we were running between 10 minute to 10..50 minute miles. Not bad for a long run.

We got back to the house to find out the kids had just woke up 30 minutes before we showed up. Why do they not sleep in when we all could sleep in? Anyway, we ran our errands and celebrated Marissa's 2nd birthday the rest of the night. The bad morning turned out to be a great day and fantastic night.

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