This is Fun Right?

So last Saturday, Brad and I went to Ogden for the 5K Foam Fest. I was super excited. This was a run with obstacles along the way. Sounds fun right? I even had been running the 2 days before to be better prepared for this 5k than I was for the last one.

So we get to this park and I notice lots of trees. That's good, we won't be melting in the sun. As we are walking to registration, we cross over part of the trail that we see goes up a very large hill. Fantastic! This is when my montra turned into "we aren't here to win, we are here to finish". Before I had wanted to finish the whole thing in 30 minutes. After listening to the 9am heat running in with a lot of people coming in at 40, 50, and even and hour after the start, I realized that maybe a 30 minute goal was out of reach.

After stretching they foamed up the starting line for us. And off we went. The first half of the run was all running. And that running was up and down hills, BIG hills. I started out great, but after going up and down several of these, I was tired. My muscles were fine, my lungs were fine, but I was running out of gas. Brad however, who has not been running, was doing fine. What hills is he running that I don't know about?

After running up and down up and down, we come to the first obstacle: climbing over 2 6 ft walls. I had thought that obstacles would be could breather opportunities. Wow, was I wrong. Brad would go first and wait for me. Poor guy, he is such a good husband waiting for his slow wife. After the walls, I needed to walk. Then Brad got me running again. At this time we are in the nice cool trees. So we are running around a nice trail and then come upon a steep incline. Yay! And we get to go up this incline on stairs. I think stairs are worse then just a bare hill. I ended up walking up these stairs cause jogging got exhausting. I haven't done the RB stairs for over 2 years, so stairs are not my strong suit.

After Brad patiently waiting for me at the bottom, we came to more obstacles, like climbing under a chicken wire (supposed to be cargo net I think), running through tires, walking along pieces of wood (for balance), running through creeks, avoiding trees and things thrown onto the trail, etc. All this while running in between. I was tired. Then we came to the river with the string of tubes tied together. You had to cross the river on the tubes (or give up and swim). Now walking into the race, we saw the 9am heat do this and it was funny to watch. Doing it myself, EXHAUSTING! Once again, Brad turned out to have some amazing strength and durability.

I wore out after 5 tires and tried just using my arms to pull me (bad move). After seeing a guy just jump in a swim the whole river (cause this obstacle was a huge road block), and having a guy pass me on the tubes, I finally just slide off the tubes and walked/swim the rest. While this was much faster, I forgot that the water would be freezing so I started to hyperventilate. But I made it across to Brad, caught my breathe while walking through a string maze obstacle thing, and then saw the foam slip-n-slides. The fun part. Brad used this to try and motivate me to keep running, because of course we had to run around before actually getting to the obstacle. After that didn't work, he told me that we had to beat the fairies.

Some people dressed up for this race in matching outfits. Like the lifeguard team with all their floaties. There was also this family with white tank tops and red fairy wings. They were behind us. Brad wanted to keep it this way. The slip-n-slides were fun, except with all the foam, you had to be careful of when to breathe. The first one you could breathe fine cause there wasn't that much foam. Then we went through the human car wash (just a bunch of foam and noodles, and then a big foam slip-n-slide that was in some blown up thing that incased the foam inside. Meaning don't breathe till you think you are out. Brad went first and scratched up his face on the dirt that was on the bottom of the slide. I went and stopped sliding a little before the end, so I was covered in foam and trying to clear my face to breathe and see. They gave us towels and then there was a water slip-n-slide. Brad had fun this whole time till he scratched his face. By now, the finish line was in sight, so we ran it in. We finished at 43 minutes. I was pretty happy with this time.

At then end they had everyone take pictures in a foam bath. Fun, except there was no place to hose off afterwards. So we used our water bottles. Now I can say that the run was fun, but if I do one of these again, I need to run up and down hills. I told Brad that this race taught me that I should never go into the military.

But hey, we finished. And we got some really fun shirts out of it! That's what counts right?

We were a little too tired to do anything fun in the tub, sorry.

We love Futbol!

When I got to work this monday, everyone was talking about the weekend. Some completely avoided talking about it, and others couldn't stop. Why? Because of the BYU Utah rivalry game. My friend/co-worker Mckenna asked me if my weekend was ruined (which hers was not cause she likes Utah). I looked at her and said, "Ruined, I went to the ReAL game and they won and then we stayed for the One Republic concert. Oh yea, and had some yummy free frozen yogurt." Good weekend.

You see, Brad and I of course are big BYU fans. I'm not saying that the fact BYU lost miserably did not make us sad. But, we happened to plan for better activities. It actually was a complete coincidence too. We love going to the ReAL games. They are fun, we love soccer, and the mexican section is crazy. When we saw that they had a game with a One Republic concert right after, we decided we couldn't miss that game. So we talked to our connection and got tickets. When last weekend finally came, I finally realized that we were missing the rivalry game. This did not make me sad, because I hate watching that game. I have pride, and watching my team lose kills it. Brad does not love watching games with me cause I will get up and leave when the football team is sucking (a beauty about watching a game at home and not being at the game). Last year we went and saw Tangled in theatres during the BYU Utah game.

Of course, after returning home from our wonderful Saturday evening, Brad and his sister, Christine, wanted to watch the rivalry game. I didn't. I went downstairs and looked up the score on ESPN. Right in time too, cause seconds later my dad text me about the game. I went back upstairs to get a drink and saw the first fumble/utah touchdown. Brad asked me if I wanted to sit down and watch with him. I told him 'sorry, but I would prefer to miss this game and just go to bed'. He was disappointed, I was tired, so I went to bed. When he came to bed, I could tell he was bummed. Brad will sit through an entire miserable game cause he is a good fan. I'm not, my happiness is more important then watching the a game crash and burn over and over again.

It took my manager a few days to talk about the game. She is a BIG BYU fan. I heard Dr. Ockey say that he didn't want to talk about it. Poor Brad had to listen to all the dumb insults at work from his Ute co-workers. I say, good job Utah for winning so well and making something of all those fumbles. I still love BYU and will always wear blue. I just won't always watch the games. I will keep watching ReAL though. Futbol is a game that makes sense to me and I love, even though all the flops can be retarded. And guess what, ReAL's colors are navy, red, and yellow. Funny huh, so at the ReAL game we saw people wearing the colors with a Utah or a BYU hat. Brad wore a red ReAL shirt and I wore my navy one. Always good to find some unity in Utah.

Brad was not cooperating with taking pictures, so that's why this ain't a good picture of us.

Side note, One Republic was awesome, even if I'm too short to see the stage over all the tall people's heads. We enjoyed watching moms dance, high schoolers act retarded, and the poor little kids who were falling asleep in their dad's arms. Good concert.

The Whole Band (picture taken on tip toes with arms up high)

Jacob's Run

There is a little boy in our ward who has a regressive neurological disorder, where he was born normal, but his body was always behind regular progression until he is now unable to move at all. He is the cutest kid and always smiles. Our ward decided to do a 5K run/walk for him to help his family with all of his medical costs. The whole community pulled together and it was so much fun.

This was my first 5K in 5 years I think. Needless to say, I was out of shape because I have not been running every day, and to top it all off, I had a head cold. Brad had his 2 pulled hamstrings (one from spring softball and another from 2 weeks ago during fall softball). I had taken dayquil, had tissues and cough drops in my pockets, and thought that I would just stay behind with Brad when he needed to rest. Ha ha Brad ended up staying behind with me. I did okay the first 2 miles, but I was out of gas after that. So we walker most of mile 3, and then Brad got me to run in the last .3 miles or whatever it is. With all the little kids in the race, some ran/walker, but others were on bikes or scooters. I really wanted a scooter. But I'm glad that I pulled through, with the encouragement of Brad. They had a big breakfast to welcome us all back after the 5K, which was awesome. There was also a silent auction with some really neat stuff that was all donated. It was fun day, and we found out that the event brought in 17K (after expenses) which is so awesome.

Brad and I just laugh because we ran in together at the end of the race, and yet they have our times listed as a minute apart....Now there is a 5K Foam Fest that I want to do. Do I enjoy running? Heck no! But this involves obstacles, mud, and a giant foam slide. So at least the 5K is spice up with stuff (plus the shirt looks pretty cool). Maybe, now that it is starting to cool down to Fall temperatures, I will go running so I'm not so out of shape.