Team B.L.I.N.G. "sweeps" the Islands 5k

Karen, Lisa, Cynthia, and Lindy (Sharon wasn't there for the picture)

We had so much fun at the Islands 5k last weekend. It is a small neighborhood run benefitting our elementary school's PTA with a 5k and a 1 mile fun run. Lyndsee and Brianna did the one mile run and did a good job run/walking. Logan was going to run the 5k but had a scouting conflict, so he chose to go to the Boy Scout 11year old day camp instead. The run was flat, fast and actually a little shy of a 5k according to my Garmin. They had a yummy pancake breakfast after and fun bouncies and games for the kids.

Five of us from our Ragnar Team B.L.I.N.G. showed up at the race, and we all left with a medal!

Lindy - first female finisher (20:52)
Karen - first in her age group (20:55)
Cynthia - third in her age group (25.39)
Sharon - first in her age group (25:46)
Lisa - first in race organization (26:39)

We all got P.R.'s! It was fun to run a local race and even funner to win an age group award! I know I'm a slow runner so this just continues to crack me up. Several other friends also won awards that day, including my 10 year old neighbor who wooped me and got first in his division, a boy Brianna's age who got second in his division (past me the last tenth of a mile) and a ward member who got third in his age group. I will wear my medal with pride!

Go Team B.L.I.N.G.!

A Few Fun Pictures of Logan and Lyndsee

Lyndsee stayed home sick from school one day. She enjoyed some York time.


And hot apple cider with peanut butter and jelly on homemade bread. Does she look sick to you? :) Sick of school maybe...


For Logan's birthday my Mom and Brianna made him a litter box cake. Once you got past the gross factor it was pretty good. The tootsie roll turds were gone in seconds!



Logan had his 11th birthday party at Jumpstreet. They have dodgeball and trampolines that you can literally bounce off the walls of! They had a great time (though you wouldn't know it from the look on his face above.)

12 women, 2 vans, 204 miles.

The Ragnar Relay this weekend was tons of fun. I'll post pictures soon. We laughed, we cried, we ran and we ran fast!!! We are still waiting for results to post, but in our minds we totally won! Of course I don't really expect to win but it was sort of fun to scope out the competition. We had a few other groups trash talking us a little, we think they were scared of us of course. It was super fun to see some old friends out there on the course, to make some new friends, and to get to see Michelle (Scott's sister) finish her last leg. She was FLYING!

I ran 18.7 miles, with my first run being 3.7, the next 6.5 and the last 8.5. The first run was a little hilly but I was really proud of my time. The second run was a trail and so that was fun and memorable, mostly I was glad I didn't fall down even once (though I was close several times.) The last one was HARD for many reasons. We had found out that a participant had been hit by a car and the whole race was rerouted meaning zero sleep for us. It was really difficult to start running with the gloomy feeling hanging over us. (I was the first runner after the rerouting). I wanted to do it for the team, we had come to complete this. I was thinking how silly it seemed to be doing this now, running a fun race is certainly not worth the life of the young boy who is barely hanging on to it now. I was being super cautious and staying well off the road and just sloshing through my miles. At about mile three my team caught up to me to give me water and lots of cheering. Other teams also felt the gloom and started cheering everyone on as well, not just their own team. I had an amazing turn around. I cruised through the next 6 miles and felt really good pounding those hills. I realized that even though running this race was not an important thing or big thing in the scheme of life, at the time it was really hard. I saw what a difference it makes to have someone cheering you on, those you know and love and those you don't. I'm going to try and remember that every day. Some of us are doing hard things, going through hard things that we never even know. Maybe all they need from me is a smile, or a "cheer" and I can do that.

Go Team B.L.I.N.G.!

5 Weeks

Lyndsee earned a special treat for doing her "5 weeks." For those who are around her you know that she decided to do "5 weeks with no sugar." She decided this totally on her own and completely stuck to it! Scott and I joined her, because we didn't feel right eating sugar when our 7 year old was abstaining. We took Sundays off and made some yummy desserts. Her teachers and friends mothers were amazed at her, she wouldn't even eat teddy grahams. She continues to make healthier choices and I'm totally proud of her. So Scott and I told her she could have some sort of a reward and she chose horseback riding. We went to Cave Creek stables (north of Scott's work in Scottsdale) and took a two hour trail ride through the beautiful Sonoran Desert. We had a great time, but Lyndsee wished her horse would have galloped a little more, they were quite tame. I think she enjoyed meeting her dad for lunch and seeing his office almost as much as the trail ride.

Scott, Lyndsee and Logan's Hike

Check out this link with pictures and a map of Scott's hike today with Lyndsee and Logan. They had a great time.

http://www.everytrail.com/view_trip.php?trip_id=490408&code=40736bac4c66bfd343c0739258cb27bf

I went running and did about 12 miles in Las Sendas (we run up there to get in some hill work.) It was a fun trip with Lisa, Sharon, Lindy, Karen and Sarah. After I picked Brianna up from ice skating and then we went shopping later. She owes me big time for the cute coat and purse I bought her. If she doesn't behave I'm taking the purse back. :)

New York

We're going to New York! Scott has a conference there in April so we are tagging along. We will go out on a Thursday night and come home the next Thursday morning. Scott will be in his conference for three days but we will still have 3 days all together to explore the city and I'll have three other days to explore with just the kids. I'm so excited! We will be going April 15 - 22nd and I'll need tips on what to do while we're there so let me know.

Happy Wednesday. :)

Exercise x 3

On Tuesday mornings I run early with my friends. This morning I ran 5 miles at 5:40 am. We are training for the Ragnar relay so we decided to run again today - to get our bodies used to multiple runs in a day. So I ran 3 miles at 10:15 am with Lisa. Then I got a text from Lindy (who ran the first run with me and saw me running the second time.) She said if I was such a hard core runner I could come to her cycle class at 12:15 too. Never to pass up a challenge, I went.

Now I'm tired. I need a shower. I want to go back to bed...but what I really need to do is all that stuff I should have been doing during workouts number two and three!