West Fest 5k

Our family usually participates in the West Fest 5k ever year. It's a pretty fun- flat race and the price is reasonable.
Miles and Lilly both ran it this year with Jane.

RAGNAR 2011

This year Jane joined the RAGNAR craze.

It's a 30 hour road trip from Logan to Park City in a van of stinky, sweaty running freaks.
It was a fun experience to run together. We are grateful that the Moellers watched our kids for us so we could do it. It was also our 14 year anniversary. What a way to celebrate- huh?

SoJo Half Marathon

We ran South Jordan Half Marathon in September. This is the first year for the So. Jordan race. It had a few glitches (not well organized)..... but it was fun! It was the first race that we have really trained for and run together. It was a nice down hill 13 miles. The race started in Copperton (cute little town at the base of the copper pit) and runs East towards the Jordan River Temple.

G & G Miles came down and took our kids to the finish. It was fun to see them along the road and then at the finish. The girls ran the last 100 yards with Jane which was neat!~

Labor Day Fun

Our annual Labor day run in Pocatello was great! Miles joined us this year to run the 5K. He did really well considering he had to use the potty in a hurry half way through. It is always a great time and a fun way to start the long weekend.

Scott set a personal best by finishing in 23:30, and took 3rd in his age group!
After the race we went to the FAIR! Tiger ears!!! Yummm.
It was a great Labor day Weekend.

Jane is running

Jane has been thinking she wanted to run a little longer race (half marathon, 13.1 miles).
She has never (even in a training run) run more than 3 miles.

So off she went. Her first long training run was 6 Miles. Then she ran 7. Then she was going to do 8 miles but missed a turn on the route and ended up running 9!!

So it looks like Scott and Jane will both be running the South Jordan Half Marathon at the end of September. It should be alot of fun!!
Way to go Jane!!!

RAGNAR

Scott was invited to be a part of a RAGNAR team this spring. Scott's friend had a family team and they needed one more runner. June 18-19 was the race. 1000 teams of 12 (some do it with 6) run 188 miles from Logan to Park City. You run three legs of about 3-8 miles each. Some are uphill, some are hilly, some are a flat and other get a nice decline. Some are a brutal, dust-in-your-face gravel pit. Two runners are especially put to the test during two intense uphill climbs in the final legs of the race, fondly called "You've gotta be kiddin' me" and "Ragnar." (Scott was one of those).

Scott's RAGNAR run.

It's just an unbelievable experience, the team aspect of the relay is amazing. Hanging out with 12 other stinky people for 30 hours and accomplishing something together was pretty cool. Not really sleeping, or eating too much (you don't want stomach problems). Seeing beautiful country and alot of running.


A couple of highlights were...
1. The night running was such a cool experience. I ran from Coalville to Wanship on the old highway. I only saw 8 other runners.... half of which I passed... the other half passed me!!! All you really see is the bouncing tail lights up in front of you.... it's a very peaceful run.
I started the leg at about 1:30 A.M. The weather was nice and cool. In fact, I had to wear a long sleeve shirt. But as I was running South I looked up and saw a sky full of stars. It was a beautiful 8 miles!

This is a photo from East Canyon that night.
2. I don't have a picture, but the they had schools across the route that you could shower at or "sleep". It was crazy to see 1000 people crashed out on the gym floor of a high school.

3. The RAGNAR run which starts about 5 miles from Guardsman pass. It was all dirt road. Almost all up hill. Steep! In 4 miles it was a gain of 1600 feet in elevation. Yes... very steep and long. But is was great to face the challenge.

Scott is planning on running it again next year. We would really like to put together a team in 2012!!! If your interested let us know. We could use a few Ethiopians or those that have trained in Ethiopia!!! (One of Jane's Brothers and his family are currently living in Ethiopia)

West Valley Classic 5K

Miles has been running a bit with Jane to get ready for the Pocatello 5K this fall. We all decided we would run the West Valley 5K this year also to give him the race experience. It was a great time and the weather was perfect. Scott ran with Miles most of the way and Jane was chasing Lisa Harmon (Jane and Lisa both finished at about 28 Minutes). It was a lot of fun and Miles did so great! He only asked Scott to walk twice and still finished the race at 31:00.


Scott left Miles with about a half mile to go so he could go take pictures of Miles crossing the finish line.