Happy Thanksgiving!

I forgot to post this on thanksgiving day, my bad

What better way to celebrate thanksgiving then running a 5k? I know it doesn't sound very festive, but in reality it makes complete sense to run the morning before a huge dinner. Digestive system kick start!

Now to be safe Priscilla, Jason, and I wanted to practice the route before the actual race. Couldn't be more happy that we did! I was grateful to know how long it would take and what hills I would have to face. Also my legs were so sore the next day I could barely walk..... Apparently there is truth to this training thing... to build endurance...who knew?

The day of the race people were pretty stoked to be there, dressed up like pilgrims, wearing funny hats. I mean even The Flash came to celebrate.

I personally did very well, shaving off about 11 mins of my time from the same race a couple years earlier. Yay, personal accomplishments!

So why do a 5k the day of thanksgiving?
- I felt great all day, was able to eat a huge thanksgiving dinner without creating a food baby, beat my record time, met The Flash, and learned a valuable lesson about the importance of training and building endurance.

Hurray we did it! Now let's go eat...

Where's the map?

November 6

Let's take a moment to discuss the importance of having a map, or at least checking with a map before you head out on a hike.

Now I know we all would like to believe that we have some special gift that makes us different then others so we don't need directions. Let's be honest people, unless you have some superpower or mutation, like wolverine,there is always possibility you will get lost.

Getting lost with Wolverine may not be to bad right?

ANYWAYS, Case in point:

Attempt to hike to the Millcreek Canyon - Salt Lake Overlook hike

Norm and I went out out on what was suppose to be a short 2 mile hike a couple hours before the sun went down. Safe enough right? WRONG! We knew where we were starting for the hike and according to the directions you just had up the trail..... so off we went

we obviously started in the right place

Now I'm not saying it wasn't a good time, not at all. I was happy Norm called and invited me to go out and get my final Fall hike in for the year. (It's suppose to snow tomorrow and I will then have to try out snow shoeing.)  It is still pretty up the canyon, but not nearly as green, everything is "dead" now so it is more brown.

I know people think brown is ugly
It reminds me a perfect marshmallow

After Hiking down whatever path we were on it started getting pretty dark and we realized we didn't have any clue how to get to the destination. Neither one of us knew where we were suppose to go and there were no signs on the path we took. Oops.... oh well it was still a good time

Thank goodness Norm came prepared, he happened to have 2 flashlights in his camelback (seriously, I don't know how I survived hiking before camelbacks) and we got back down to the car safely. Well lesson learned, next time make sure there is a clear plan of where the destination is!