Still running!

Ok, so I promise not to keep updating this blog with boring news about running. But I had to say I completely blew my scheduled runs this week. Well actually I cheated...to some degree, if you can call it that. Monday we got to play basketball at the Delta Center for two hours. That's right, I still call it the Delta Center because to name it the Energy Solutions Arena is ridiculous! So now I just call it either the Delta Center or the Jazz Center. Back to running, I ran for two hours there shootin it up with my mad basketball skills that don't really exist(at least I didn't get hurt like I did playing flag football). And then after work this evening I busted out a 10 mile run! No biggie! I could have kept going I suppose, but there are other perfectly worthwhile activities to pursue on a Friday night so I stopped at 10. But that was it for the week. A little b-ball and a 10 miler and call it good for the week!
The story about flag football is a different entry all together, but suffice it to say that when a person gets hurt playing no contact, grab the flag, football, and the ground breaks your arm, it means I'm getting old. I suppose it's time to settle down and realize that the only thing left to do that's sports related is yell at referees at my kid's games. I have mid-life crisis-ees about once a year lately. My young buck days are over, my hair is pretty much gone except for my ears and nose, I turn my head to hear from my better ear, I may need glasses soon, I'm eating more fruit...willingly, and I'm the one saying, "not tonight honey I have a headache"! If this wasn't a family blog I would swear about right now!! My next high intensity sport...Fishing!

Run Forest, Run!!

Many of you know that my sister Staci and I are getting ready for a 1/2 marathon on May 17th. I completed one back in September of 07. I took it easy over the winter and I'm back to training again. December and January I spent a lot of time on the treadmill at the gym, but my outdoor running just started again last week and as you can see below the gym time really helped maintain.
Here's a quick breakdown of my progress after 2 weeks with 12 to go:
Week 1: 3 miles / 5.5 miles
Week 2: 6 miles / 8 miles today. Other than running there's a lot that can happen in 8 miles such as getting chased by a dog, stepping on a dead squirrel, playing chicken with a train(the train always wins by the way..but not today), 27 beer bottles along the roadside, a buick stuck in the mud, two flying fourwheelers, one very dead deer carcus, and a partridge in a pear tree!
Week 3 coming up: 3 - 6 - ??

Soon to be stuffed!

I wish I could take credit for this, but my buddy in Springville got this one just a couple miles up the canyon. If you're an animal lover, as am I, I would prefer to see these amazing animals in one of two ways: First, alive and very far away, or second, up-close, personal, and dead! This is a sub-adult, male cat that weighed in at around 150 lbs. The claws pop right out with a little push on the pads and the teeth are proof enough that this is an animal you wouldn't want to run into. I come across their tracks regularly while hiking in the hills and mountains in the area. Even though encounters with Mountain Lions are rare, most hunters have a story to tell, some are pretty tall, some aren't tall at all.

http://wildlife.utah.gov/publications/pdf/newlion.pdf

Hey a new template: Mario Bros.

Love this game! I can't tell you how much money I spent on this game at the arcade when I was a kid. The good thing is that I could make 25 cents last about an hour. The Wii, Playstation, and Game Cube can all say thank you to this one game right here that caputured the attention and addictions of teenagers of yesteryear. And I can't leave out Atari, Odessey, and the good old black and white table tennis. I should probably mention somewhere in here the Apple IIe, our first computer, DOS based of course. These days if I need to play a video game I just whip out my Blackberry and I can play anywhere, anytime. Technology has now brought us to the days of seeing random strangers talking to themselves, although they are talking to someone...supposedly! It really comes down to that darn 'S' word. 'Supposedly' this is such an important conversation it HAS to take place anywhere, anytime!! I hate to admit this so please keep it private, but sometimes I screen my calls! If I'm in the restroom and someone keeps calling me over and over and freaking over and they really want to talk to me, next time I'll just answer it!
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