Team Mullet

The majority of my family came up this past weekend to run the Dirty Dash. Last year was the first year I ran the dash, and it was a lot of fun. In fact, I told my family what a good time we had and they decided that they wanted to give it a shot. We came up with a team name, "Team Mullet: Business in the Front, Party in the Back" and we all bought fake mullets and leggings and shorts for the occasion, well all of us except Chris who had me shave his hair into a mullet just for the race. We encountered far more obstacles this year than last year, getting dirtier in the first mile than we did through nearly the whole race last year, but the essence of the race was the same, a lot of laughing, a lot of mud, a lot of people running around like crazy people. What Fun!

San Francisco

Chris and I went to San Francisco a few weeks ago as we continued on with our efforts to see every baseball park in the country. We saw the Giants and the Athletics play in their respective parks and also got to tour the city, which was a lot of fun. One of the funnest things we did while we were there was run across the Golden Gate Bridge. We ran across it relatively early in the morning while the top was still shrouded in fog but you could still see the bay. It was idyllic. Unfortunately it's too hard to carry a camera with you when you run for 10 miles, so I don't have any pictures of that beautiful morning. However, below are pictures of us in front of the baseball parks.


Apart from our trip, we've been keeping busy training for some long races by running some shorter races. We recently ran the Legacy Parkway Midnight 10K, which was a lot of fun, and, of course, the Waffle Run, our annual 4th of July race. We're planning on a few half marathons in the near future before our two long ones.

When People Ask...

...if I'm a runner, I always say no, but it's getting harder to say that. Chris and I have been in a few races over the past few months, and we're planning to enter more, all to get ready for the Las Vegas Ragnar Relay Race coming up in October. We ran in the Law Day 5K, the Midnight 5K in St. George, the Fight for Air Run (10K) and we're signed up for a few more races before Ragnar. I never wanted to start running, I sort of fell into it, but I've found that it's been a terrific distraction from certain things.



In other happenings, both my youngest brother and Chris' youngest brother graduated from high school earlier this month. We're really proud of both of them. Unfortunately we didn't get any pictures of Chris' brother graduating, so below is a picture of him winning state with his tennis doubles partner.

What We've Been Up To...

I went to the Shakespeare Festival again with my sisters and mom.

We went to see Utah Play Notre Dame in Football.

We also went to see Utah Play Bosie State in the Vegas Bowl.

We went to see the Winter Classic in Pittsburgh.

My grandparents from New Zealand flew over for a week.

Chris and I saw another baseball game, this time in Seattle.

I ran my very first Half Marathon.

We celebrated the royal wedding at work by wearing our hats and having a tea party.

I suppose it seems like a lot, but if I would just keep up, everything would be spread out and we'd look a lot more boring, like we really are. :)

The Dirty Dash

This weekend some incredibly awesome girls and I participated in the Dirty Dash as a team. Chris and I have been running consistently for a long time now and I must say, all of that running did nothing to prepare me for this race. My teammates and I arrived at Soldier's Hollow on Saturday morning and signed in for our race. We started looking around and all of us were thinking the same thing. "What were we thinking?!" Actually, it turned out to be a lot of fun. The Dirty Dash is a 10K race through mud pits, over walls and down giant inflatable slip and slides. We laughed as we slipped to our knees and crawled around in the smelliest, dirtiest race of our lives. As you can see in the pictures, we're covered in mud, but still laughing.

Summer 2010

Chris and I went on vacation with his family this year. We went to California and saw some baseball games and went to the San Diego zoo.




My little brother also got married. We're so happy for them.

July 4th

We celebrated the 4th of July by running in the Waffle Run again this year (even though it was on the 3rd instead). It's always a fun tradition that we can enjoy on the weekend of the 4th, especially since Chris won't watch fireworks or parades. This year, the shirts had the face of last year's Waffle run who looks like a cross between a very patriotic Jerry Garcia and that guy from the Hangover, which made everyone who saw them laugh. Chris and I ran it in record time, for us, and my little brother who was up visiting from Nevada ran it with us too. We went to a movie at the dollar theater instead of watching the Sugarhouse fireworks but, unfortunately, the movie ended just as the fireworks ended, so we got the full experience of fireworks mania as we sat in the parking lot for over an hour trying to escape. On Sunday, my little brother and I were able to sneak a peak at the fireworks from the country club from my living room while Chris was away at his brother's house for a bit, which was nice and we didn't have to stew in the car to watch them, which was nicer.