Nancy's Blog

At 5am I walked a mile with Duke and my son and then I came home and ate breakfast, did my indexing and did some cleaning.  Then I called and woke Leslie up and we rode our bikes on our short 8 mile course.  I would like to ride farther sometime but Leslie doesn't get up early enough.  It was a nice ride up through daybreak.  I count my walking and biking miles together since I don't know how to separate them.

This morning at 5am I walked a mile with my son and Duke.  Then I came home, ate breakfast and left to go help with the registration for the Riverton 10K.  There were a lot of people from our running group helping.  It was slow until 6:30 and then everyone started to come.  At five minutes to 7 I ran and took a bathroom break and got back in time for the start of the race.  I went slow and steady and felt pretty good.  I visited with a lot of people along the way.  About half way through I started feeling very hot.  At the water stop I dumped water over my head.  I kept going slow and steady and if someone tried to pass me I would make sure they weren't older than me.  I made it to the end 1 minute faster than last year and I wasn't quite as dead either.  I hurried and ate a bagel and then hurried home so Ben and I could go to our storage auction and then to Leslie's piano recital.

This morning at 5am I went on a 1 mile walk with my son.  Then I came home, ate breakfast, and cleaned the house before I called and woke Leslie up.  Today we tried a new 3 mile course.  We ran from Leslie's house to the canal and followed the canal south to 114th and then ran up towards daybreak and then turned around at the 1.5 mile mark.  On the way back we saw Michelle, Cheris and Julie coming the other direction.  It was a good run, but it was already getting hot.  After our run I helped Leslie put together the sishkabobs for our BBQ.

I met the group at Riverton High for the early miles.  We did our usual course and I started out early so I almost made it to the end before they caught me.  Then we did a mile warm up when the others got there and then ran on the track.  I was very tired at the end. It was good to see Rachel there again.

After I got home I ate breakfast, changed and weeded for and hour.  Then I cleaned the kitchen and did a good clean on my laundry room and cupboards.  Then I ate lunch, took a nap and made a run to DI.  Then I did my leg weight/stomach exercises and 50 pushups, 30 second break and 25 more.

This morning I walked 1 mile with Ben and then I went to the temple with Leslie.  Then I came home and did some cleaning and went to help Christine.  She is 7 months pregnant and already getting labor pains.  I helped clean her house and watch the kids.  Then I came home and took a nap and did my indexing.  After dinner I rode bikes with Leslie.  We did our usual daybreak 8 mile course.

This morning at 5am I walked a mile with Duke and Ben and then I came home and made breakfast and did some cleaning.  Then I called Leslie and woke her up so we could run.  We did our usual 6 mile daybreak course.  It felt very hot.

This morning I slept in clear until 5am, then Ben, Duke and I walked a mile.  After our walk I made breakfast and did some cleaning. At 6:45 I called and woke up Leslie, but she wanted to sleep a little longer so I called back at 7am and then went over to bike with her.  We did our usual 8 mile daybreak course.  Leslie doesn't love biking like I do.  She thinks it is harder than running.  I think it is way easier and I could go a lot farther and faster but I am glad she will ride with me.  Now I need to get packed up to go to our family outing.  We our going to Crystal Hot Springs and all of our kids and grandkids will be there except my oldest.  We will miss them but I"m sure we will have a nice time.

At 4:30 I walked with Duke and Ben.  At 7:45 I went to the IMC for short stay surgery on my trigger finger.

Ben, Duke and I took our walk at about 4:45.  We have been going just a little farther each day so I think today we went 1.5 miles.  Then I came home, ate breakfast, did my indexing and cleaned the kitchen.  Then I called and woke Leslie up and we did our 3 mile run.  We ran north on 40th west to the church on 102 and then west up the hill and then south to 106th and back to 40th west and to Leslie's.  I was able to go faster today even without Duke pulling me.  Maybe it was because I ate so many goodies over the weekend.  It was a good run.

Ben, Duke and I went on our walk at 4:30 am this morning.  We are walking  from my house down 114th almost to the light at the bottom of the hill.  When I got back it was 5:05 so I got my running stuff ready and headed out the door.  The group was meeting at the church on 102nd and 40th west.  I got there a few minutes late and so did Michelle M so we did our own 2 mile run and then met the group back at the church.  We did a warm up and then a 4 mile tempo run.  We had a big group this morning.  I was very tired but plugged along.  Kris Bullock kept getting cramps and had to walk a couple of times so I almost caught up with her and Debbie.  After the 4 mile tempo run we were doing hill repeats.  Cheryl, Peggy, Kelli and I decided to take off our shoes and run up the grass hill.  It was very steep and close to the top I had to walk.  We did the hill 3 times and then ran back to the cars.  It was a good run and I was very tired.  

After I got home I ate breakfast, cleaned up and then went to tend Christine's kids while she took her oldest daughter Rachel to get her tonsils out.

When I got home from babysitting, I had a nap, did some cleaning and indexing and then did my leg weight/stomach exercises along with mens pushups.  I did 50 pushups, took a 30 second break and did 25 more.  It was good to see Kelli and Rachel back at running group.

 Tuesday night Leslie and I rode our bikes.  We did our usual daybreak course. 

I walked with Ben at 4:30 am and then I ate breakfast, cleaned the kitchen and then called and woke Leslie up so we could go to the temple. After I got back I changed and then Ben and I went to a Storage Auction.  We got one of the units so we spent the next 3 hours cleaning it out and hauling all the stuff home.  We were both tired and after lunch took a nap.

At 4:30am I walked 1.5 miles with Duke and Ben.  At 7:20 I ran 6 with Leslie.

This morning at 4:30 Ben Duke and I did our 1.5 mile walk.  At 7:45 I went to IMC short stay surgery to get my trigger finger fixed.

This morning at 5:30 am I walked with Ben and Duke.  Then I ate breakfast and did some cleaning.  Then I called Leslie and woke her up.  We were going to go 10 miles but because Leslie has had a sinus infection we decided to go 8.  We ran down 40th west to Sky Drive and then ran up past the Golf Course and past the park and north on 48th west until we hit 4 miles and then we turned around and headed back.  I'm glad Leslie has a GPS watch so we can know how far we go.  On the way back we walked a couple of times because Leslie was very tired.  It is a good thing we only went 8 miles.  I'm glad my hand is feeling good enough today to type.  It is very swollen but it doesn't hurt very much.

At 4:30 am I walked 1.5 miles with Duke and Ben.  Then I came home, ate breakfast and did some cleaning before I called and woke Leslie up.  We ran our 3 mile course along the canal by her house.  I won't be able to do my arm and leg weight exercises or bike until I get my stitches out next week.

This morning at 4:30 I walked with Ben and Duke.  We walked all the way down to the light at the River bottoms and back.  It was a good walk.  Then I left to go to the early miles with the BBK's.  They were already gone when I got there so I went the opposite direction and met them coming the other way on 126th.  Then I turned around and we headed towards Riverton High and ran through the subdivision across from it and then back to meet the others for the regular miles.  We started off on the track with a mile warm up.  Then while they did 400 sprints I just ran a mile as fast as I could(it was very slow but I try to stay under 11 minutes)  then I walk a lap and then run another mile.  After we did 4-5 miles on the track we ran out to 2700 and did another mile run through the next neighborhood.  I was very tired when I got home.

Duke, Ben and I did our usual morning walk.  It was a little bit cooler this morning and it felt good.  Ben and I got some of our stuff from our storage auction listed on Ebay and then I helped Kent harvest the honey.  After he takes the boxes off the hives he takes each frame and cuts off the wax with a hot knife and then puts 4 frames at a time in the spinner.  After the honey spins off the frames it drains into buckets.  Then we warm it up and put it though a filter and then into bottles.  It was a lot of work but we got 90 lbs. of honey.

Ben, Duke and I did our usual early morning walk.  Then I ate breakfast, did some cleaning and then called and woke Leslie up.  We did our usual 6 mile daybreak run.  For some reason this run has been very hard the last two times.  I don't know if it is the heat or what, but both times this run was harder than our longer Saturday runs.

This morning Ben, Duke and I walked but we didn't go as far because Ben didn't feel too good.

This morning at 5 am Ben, Duke and I did our usual 1.5 mile walk from our house down to the light at the river bottoms.  Then I got all of my stuff ready for our breakfast that we were eating on the other side of Butterfield Canyon.  Our family on this side of the Mountain (Chrissy, Ralphy and families and Ben, Leslie, Kent and I) were meeting my daughter Carrie and her husband and kids on the Tooele side of the mountain( where they live) to cook breakfast and visit.  After I got everything ready I called and woke up Leslie and then went to her house.  We ran from her house to Chrisy's house and then after a bathroom break and refill of my ice water we ran back.  It was a good run.  Leslie started to get very tired at the end and we walked when we got to her street.  We had a fun time in the canyon with our family. 

I was very tired this morning.  I had grandkids over for the weekend and we didn't get to bed until 11:45 last night.  Ben and I woke up a couple minutes late (4:35 instead of 4:30) so we didn't have time to walk as far.  Then I came home and cleaned before I called Leslie.  Leslie and I ran straight down 40th west to sky drive and back.  We went nice a slow because we were both tired.

Ben, Duke and I did our usual walk down 114th to the River Bottoms and back and then I met the BBK's a Bingham.  We first ran over to Templeview and ran around it about 4-5 times and then went to Bonanza and did it 3 time and then did Prospector.  We had a new girl come today named Cher.  She was slow like me so I had someone to talk to the whole time.  She had to leave a 6:30.  It was a good run and I was very tired afterwards.

Ben, Duke and I walked down to the light at the river bottoms at 4:30 this morning.  Then I made breakfast and cleaned the kitchen.  Then I did my leg weight/stomach exercises for the first time since my hand surgery 1 and 1/2 weeks ago.  You wouldn't think leg weight exercises would hurt my hand, but I hold 10# weights in my hands when I do the first two reps and 20# weights on the next two reps.  It only hurt my hand a little bit.  I decided to wait 1 more week before doing my pushups because I know they would hurt my hand.

Ben, Duke and I did our usual walk down to the light at the River Bottoms.  Then I filled my water bottle and headed out the door to meet the BBK's at the Tithing Hill church.  I got there just in time to do the 1 mile warmup.  We jogged through the Tithing Hill condo's and down the hill and then back up again.  I ran fast down the hill and by the time a ran back up was tired.  Melanie Steere was back after having her baby.  It was good to see her.  Rachel's friend Calvin was also here for the first time.  Then I went home and ate breakfast and made breakfast for Kent and then Called and woke Leslie up.  We did our usual daybreak run.  It didn't get me as tired today as it has the past two weeks.  Tomorrow at 5am we are headed to Fish Lake to visit our friends that have a cabin there so the only exercise I will be getting is when we go for walks with them.