Second Chances

Well remember last time we ran Ragnar and I threw up 5,856 times?

Well good news! Second time is a charm! No puke this time! We did the las Vegas Ragnar and it was super fun!

We went down on Thursday and we got to stay at this super pretty home in Boulder City, where a friend of a team-mate lived. They were so nice for letting us stay! This was the view from their back porch below.

We started running on Friday about 2:00pm and kept going...

...into the night. This is Mikey and my mother in law in the car that night. I think Mike and Dawna had just finished their legs at this point. Isn't my husband cute? haha

This is the next day on Mikey's last leg. He is soooo fast at running. He's amazing. He ran a total of 23 miles I believe, and mostly up-hill. He never even had one thing bad to say about it. He would probably have me explain in this picture that his ipod which was perched on his waste fell at this very moment and that is what he was grabbing. :) Not that you would have noticed before, but just to add the disclaimer.

Mike said this should be my slogan for the race. It pretty much was. When we ate dinner the night after the race, I definitely got my fill of diet coke.

I don't really know what this car is, but it was the son of our hosts. Mike thought it was cool enough to document it though so I thought I would add it. I think he looked up the price for this bad boy and it was about $114K-196K. (and this was his second car......and he's 23) Lucky boy! :)

This was my favorite. If you can't tell what is going on here, these are Mike's legs. And that is his mom and sister giving each of his feet a "treatment." He is a pampered little boy. haha I love it though.

And of course, here are our metals!! Since we did the Wasatch Back too, we got a "Saints and Sinners" metal.

It was a fun weekend! It went by waaaay too fast!

But luckily it's Halloween weekend!! Wahoo!

Ps Today I'm grateful for good health.

Plankers

So this year we did the Ragnar. I will keep this short because I feel like there had been Ragnar overload all over facebook and pretty much everywhere else. It's really not that cool since half of Utah was there.

Anyway, when I say "we" I mean mostly just my team. I woke up with the flu. 

Awesome.

Have you ever tried running with the flu?

If the answer is no, keep it that way.

I woke up at about 4am that day with a fever and feeling horrible. Determined to kick the sickness and run as planned, I still went. After registering, I puked on the side of the road. After that I felt great!! (you know that feeling right after you throw up...) haha So I thought I'd run my first leg. About two miles in I really wished I hadn't.

Above is proof that I ran the first leg. haha although after this, I puked again. Gross. So this was the last leg I ran.

I stayed with the group though and took part in the festivities. After the first day, I felt pretty good. I was grateful for that. But not stupid enough to try running again.

There is this new thing....that's super weird. And really actually dumb. Which makes it pretty funny. It's called "planking." Some have heard of it, and others haven't. Bt the point is to find random stops and lay face down and take a picture. These boys decided to make it the the main highlight of the race.

I have to admit, it's kinda funny.

We did the race with the Whetton Family + my mother in law, Dawna. It was a great time and I sure loved the peeps in our van. I am really happy I got to know them better! Hopefully we will do it again another year. :)