Cheseboro half marathon

Last Saturday I ran a half marathon to help with my training for the L.A. Marathon in May. This race totally reminded me of why I love to run:))) It was around 7 miles on trails and the rest on road. The trails were so very hard. They just kept coming and coming. They were steep and rocky. But for some reason, I was so totally in love with the trail. I didn't get any pictures because Scotty didn't make it with the kids but when I get one from the race photo guy, I'll post it. My fastest half marathon is a 1:24, but that race was down a canyon and all on road. This race I did a 1:38. So it was slower but the hills seriously made it slower. The winner of my age group did it in a 1:32. So if the winning time was a 1:32 that says something about the course. I took 2nd place:)) and was way happy about that. I felt so good the last 3 miles in that I was running sub 6 minute miles. I was passing people like crazy. Anyways, for all you who care, that was my race experience and now I am packing on the miles to get ready for the marathon:))))

Travel Town!!!

We went to Travel Town to celebrate that Graham is potty trained:)) This place is way cool. They have all sorts of old trains to see and a train ride. Besides garbage trucks, Graham loves trains. So this place was a hit:)









And no, Grahammie didn't have an accident there:)

February Savings!!!!

Ok so I don't mean to boast (or do I:)) but I have to blog about how my couponing is going up to now. I don't have a lot of time to get way into the whole thing but what I am doing is paying off. I just check out the sales each week, match up coupons and then save. This whole process has become a game for me. The game being- who will pay more, me or the grocery store. So here are my tallies for the month of February-
I spent $210.45 at the grocery stores
I saved $311.37 at the grocery stores

Oh yeah. Who won in Feb.??? That's right, stick it high grocery prices!!!

ps. these totals don't include any money I spent at Costco;)

Ragnar Relay Race 204 miles;)))

I just got back from one of the coolest races I have ever done. It was in AZ and it started in Prescott and ended in Mesa. It was like 204 or 202 miles - no one is for sure:) It was a 12 person relay and I loved it. It took us 26 hours and 45 minutes (about). Which means we got no sleep. But after the race I slept so good. We took 5th out of over 100 teams!! I ran a total of 18.3 miles of the 204 miles. We have more pics coming of the transition points but for now these are the pics I have.

This pic was taken right before we ran our long race. Can you tell that we are all clean and energized!! If you look closely between the girls row and the boys row you will see my friend Briana who is amazing!! She couldn't run the race this year for health reasons but she was still there encouraging us. Next year Bri!!!


Here are the girls who ran the race;)))

And here are the boys


Here we are after we were done. We don't look as nice anymore do we:)))


I know that Ragnar does a race in UT. If any of you can, I think you should do one. It is way crazy!!!!!