Nancy's Blog

After work I took a short nap and then my visiting teachers came.  I didn't have time to do my leg weight/stomach exercise because Leslie and I were going on a bike ride at 4:30.   I'll have to do them on Friday when I am off work.  We rode down redwood to 118th and up 118th to Herriman High School.  Then we turned around and headed back down.  Leslie still wasn't feeling up to par so I had to stop and wait for her a couple of times. The wind was blowing hard on the way back especially when we got to Redwood road.   It took 35 minutes to ride up and 20 minutes to ride back.  Next time we will ride to Highway 111.  We need to get some long rides in before our Goldilocks 60 mile bike ride.

Met the group at Bingham for the early miles.  Duke stopped 5 times to go potty so I got way behind and never caught up.  I had to leave right when I got back to Bingham because I had to be to work at 6.  After work I was to busy to swim.

I did my leg weight/stomach exercises along with 75 men's pushups.  I had scouts after that and then went visiting teaching so I didn't have time to swim.

I had to be to work at 6am so I didn't have time to meet the BBK's at the church on 102nd and 40th W so I ran from my house down redwood road to the light and back.  Duke came with me.  After dinner Leslie and I were going to ride bikes but she ended up staying late at work.

I was off work today so after breakfast and some cleaning I went to Marv's to swim.  I felt tired while I swam.  I did 10 laps took a short break, did 10 more took a short break and did 10 more.  I sure hope I'm not tired tomorrow when I run the Riverton 1/2 marathon.  I'm driving out to Tooele to take my oldest daughter to lunch for her Birthday.  She turned 38 on Sunday.  It is also my granddaughter Annika's Birthday today and since she is Carrie's daughter I will visit her while I am there.

I ran the Riverton 1/2 marathon.  My goal was to make it to the end.  The longest distance I've run in the past 6 months is 9 miles.  I started off nice and slow and kept the slow pace most of the race.  My school principal who is in my age group passed me up in the first mile but I caught her on the first downhill and stayed ahead of her the rest of the race.  I only saw Leslie at the beginning and end of the race.  We didn't bring Duke this time because when we ran the course to train he started limping at mile 5 so we stopped and took him home.  I had to walk two times.  The first time was on 144th going up the hill and the second time was the S curve.  After I turned on the street past Walgren's my daughter Christine came running up to me and ran the last 1/4 mile with me.  It really helped because I was feeling pretty dead by then.  I finished in 2hrs 23mins and 26 seconds and was third in my age group.  I was pretty wiped out at the finish line and had to lean on Christine until she helped me sit on the grass.  Her kids were there holding a sign that said, "Go Grandma."  I saw lots of people from our running group.  We all wore purple and orange bands to remember Danny Dudley, Lisa's husband who died just 3 weeks ago.  Lisa was the race director and we gave her our bands at the end and she cried and hugged us.