NIKE WOMEN'S MARATHON

As you all know this last year I have taken a new approach to running and since then I have completed several Marathons,Half Marathons and a few 10k's and 5k's. I have had a amazing experience with each of them and have lots of memories of each race. This last July I got injured doing the Provo Freedom Festival 10k, I went to the Dr. and did several test with X-rays and such and never found what the problem was/is. Well, in the meantime I took about 3months off completely from running and I was still limping around the house with pain but just ignored the pain. NOTHING was getting better I don't know what I've done to myself but there's something wrong but WHAT..?Well, then of course I remembered that in January I put in for the Nike Women's Marathon in San Fransisco and got in. So, I thought since my whole family is planning to fly out with me I better start to train for this I didn't want to be a quitter either and didn't want to let them down by not doing this since this is all I have talked about since January. By this time its the beginning of October and I only have until Oct. 19 to get all this training in so I did I trained everyday for the next 3weeks and yeah there was pain but nothing was going to stop me from getting that Tiffany's necklace so I was popping Advil every 4hrs to keep the pain under control it was fine because all I could think about was the Tiffany's necklace I was about to get at the Finish line so that kept me moving.

Finally, its Friday Oct 17th and I'm about to board the plane to San Fransisco with my whole family coming to support me by this time I have butterflies wondering if I can really do this or not..? Well, clear back in January I had planned to do the full 26.2 Marathon but as time went on and my injury didn't get better I was always wondering if I would be able to really do this or not..? or if I was just setting myself up for failure well it turns out I FINISHED! I DID IT, I FINISHED the Half Marathon which is 13.1 miles with a timing of 2:10 with tears of joy running down my face. I was greeted with several of San Fransisco's hottest firemen all wearing blue and black tuxedo's holding what I had worked so hard for a small box with a Tiffany's Finisher necklace in it, its beautiful and means so much to me! This was an amazing experience the best race ever! I was with 20,000 other women and 1,000 men all to support the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society which has raised over $18 million since this race started back in 2000 it was amazing the whole town of San Fransisco was booming it was awesome.

Last but not least that pain got worse so when I came home on Tuesday the next day I went straight into the Dr's and did another X-ray and yeah sure enough there's a problem a big problem but what..? The Dr. asked me if I'd ever broken my pelvis my instant reply was," No Never why..?" He continued to point out the X-ray to me and sure enough there's a break in my pelvis. What the hell I just ran a half marathon with a broken pelvis. I cant even believe it no wonder why I was in so much pain and never getting better. Well, as you can imagine I wont be running for a long time I have to go to the Orthopedic Surgeon in 4wks and if at that time its not healing I will undergo surgery. Crazy huh? Well all I can say it was sure with the pain and I'm sure my pain is nothing compared to all the millions who battle Leukemia each year. I loved every minute of that race and as long as I'm running I will plan to put in for that race every year. I have tonz of pictures to post but my camera is still with my dad in San Fransisco so keep your eyes here for more pictures to come. Also, I just want to Thank my whole family for being such a good support to me and helping me out with the training since it requires alot of hours of running each day/week.Thanks family your the best!!




Dad,me,Peggy and Sexy T its early 6AM


T giving me a encouraging hug at 6AM

Me at Union Square about to start


My biggest fans




Almost there Finished prize Tiffany's necklace

Finshed with my Finishers T-shirt and Tiffany's necklace


Video clip of me at the Finish Line


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The Paint Projects

So as some of you know two weeks ago I wanted to take on a new project. I wanted to "warm-up" our house by doing a little paint job. I thought I would be able to have it be cheap,fast and easy. Oh no can I just tell you it was neither of those it was a long hard expensive project but well worth the late nights and many run's across town to Lowe's.
First I started with the small wall in the 1/2 bathroom downstairs. I wanted to match the color of a vase that I have sitting on my coffee side table in the living room so that it would all flow nicely. The color of the vase is this green same as the green that you see here on my wall.After painting the wall I had to of course get a new rug and towels to match. I really like the green. Although Terry calls it "shit green"

After doing the bathroom early the next morning I started painting the kitchen wall and at that time I was going for a pretty tan color. Well there are no pretty tan color's I quickly realized but that wasn't until after I painted the whole wall a mud tan it was ugly and had a peach tint to it so, I painted over it 3 more times until finally I found a chocolate brown that was beautiful. I don't have pictures of the kitchen because of the lighting is too bad right now.But I will have them soon enough.
After painting the kitchen 4x's I wanted to paint the upstairs where there used to be T's work desk.We built on a loft so now we didn't have the desk here anymore so it was a huge empty space. I thought that it would look nice to paint it the same chocolate brown as the kitchen. After painting it I realized it looks good, but not good enough I had to put something there but what?Well, as you can see I got a new chair & ottoman and wall hanging to go above the chair. Now its complete.


Oh man I just cant quit now I must do my room and then that will be it. or will it..?I wanted to go for some warm fall tones but didn't want the same popular brown that was everywhere else in my house at this point. So I choose a mustard yellow color. Its a Venetian wall texture and it took a lot of time for this one wall but its absolutely gorgeous.My bedroom went from feeling blah to a warm relaxing area. At this point also I have gone way above my budget so I only was able to get new gold sheets and all new throw pillows. As you can see I have a red pillow stitched with black that ties the new chair in with the bedroom.


Like I said was I really done or not..? NOT!! Last but not least I wanted the master bathroom to flow the my bedroom so I used the last bit of paint left and did the small back wall in the bathroom.Now my paint jobs are complete for now.