10 Miler

Well it was supposed to be a 10 miler. But for me it ended up being a little less. Let's just say I had issues again. As Stacey yelled at me and Tom (because he had issues of his own), "YOU GUYS HAVE GOT TO GET YOUR SHIT TOGETHER!"

We ran through Ogden. Up and down, back and forth. I love running through Ogden because the streets are all shady from the trees and the roads have no traffic and the houses are really cool to look at.

Super proud of Stacey because this is the farthest she has ever ran. She did awesome too!

**STATS**

ME
Distance: 9.13 (8.13 + 1.0)
Time: 1:36:00
Pace: 10:30/min/mile

TOM & STACEY
Distance: 9.79
Time: 1:45:04
Pace: 10:44/min/mile

Temperature: ?? Warm but not bad
Time of day: 7:00 p.m

Life After the Marathon

Surprisingly I think me and my dad have recovered well. It took a few days for my knees to stop being mad at me but I wasn't miserably sore. That's not to say I wasn't sore. I was hobbling around for about 3 days. But it was the good kind of sore. Stretching hurt but felt so good. It was funny watching my family try to do anything for a few days because we were all hurting. I tried a roller out on my brother's leg and he moaned in pain. It was great.

My first run was 1 week after the marathon. I did a little over 5 miles with my sister. My left knee killed me. I don't think it was smart running on the hills that soon. My second run was the mud run a few days ago. I felt great but we walked a lot of it and didn't focus on running. It was more about the fun of it. And my latest run was yesterday with my dad. We did 3.5 but it was so hot. The route was great because it was slightly hilly but not enough to hurt my knees. But it was too hot. We walked about half of it. It felt so good to be out there though. We both talked about keeping up on running and some "future" plans.

I think signing up for the mud run and a few other runs I have coming up was a smart move on my part because it made me think past the marathon. I couldn't just say ok get to the marathon and it will all be over. The marathon was great and pushed me to do a distance I never would have done otherwise, but these other races keep me going. I think without them I wouldn't run again.

So stay tuned to see what else we end up trying.

The Dirty Dash & Piglet Plunge

Yesterday we completed a muddy mess of a run. It was a 5k mud run. I wanted to sign up for something that was shortly after the marathon to force me to keep running. Last time I ran a marathon I didn't run again for over a year and this time I wanted to do something that would keep me going. I thought this mud run would be perfect. Something fun and not at all stressful yet somewhat challenging. I recruited a lot of family in the process which makes any run funner!

I'm including this run in the daddy daughter journal because Tom was supposed to run this with me, but at the last minute things came up and he wasn't able to join us in the muddy fun.

**STATS**

Distance: 3.1 miles

Time: 55:09 (Me) & 55:12 (Jer)

These are our really good friends, Dan & Julie and their daughter Emma, we met in California. We have been friends for 5 years now and Ava and their daughter have been freinds since they were 2 1/2. They were excited to get down and dirty with us.

The beautiful course

Our audience and babysitters are in place

And we're off! We were 1 of many waves.

Getting ready to make our way up a big climb to the slip n slide

Heading to the finish line

Mom, Stacey, Jodi, Erin & Todd making their way to the final mud pit

Mom made it through the mud pool to the top of the hill, now she just needs to go down the mudslide and she is home.

Aunt Jodi and cousin Skyler

Todd & Erin. Todd was determined to get everyone but himself muddy by kicking and throwing mud but at the end he did a cannon ball into the final mud pool so I think he was the muddiest.

Cousin Cari and her friend

A huge reason I wanted to do this run was because they offered a Piglet Plunge for the kids. At our last mud run in Monterey we thought there was a kids mud run and Ava was so excited for it, she even "trained" with me at home. It turned out to be nothing. I couldn't wait for her to finally get to do her own mud run. The kids got to run up the same muddy hill we started out on and then took a short cut over to the slip n slide and then ended by wading in the last mud pit. Ava loved it. Ady wasn't so sure.

Tanner wasn't so sure either