BACK TO WORK

AM-Had an awesome run today.  Since we had the day off from work, I went out to Red CLiffs and ran Prospector Trail toward Washington. It had rained last night so the trail was pretty muddy.  I got to the fork and decided to go up cottonwood canyon for a bit and then bouldered up to the top of the north hill.  It a little break and just looked around.  It was a beautiful fall day. 

ON the way back home, dusk called and said he was bring mom and dad out to Paris w/ him and Nicole for the week.  He ask where we stayed and wanted to stay on the other side of the city since he had heard about our run in with all the skin clubs when we stayed there in the Spring.  I told him that was probably a good idea.  Although Paris architecture was stunning, the people were lame!  You can have it all of Paris, and I will take my little cabin in Hatch, Utah. 

PM Stretched the legs out in SLC with the XC team.  I decided to ride up w/ them so I could watch the meet tomorrow. 

Logan took the boys and girls team to this neat little italian place in slc where we sat w/ the pope.  There was a bust of the pope on the lazy susan in the midle of the table.  The kids had fun and it was quite refreshing to see how genuine these kids act.  No facades and no motives-just great kids!

AM Logan talked me into getting up at 5 this morning to run.  The weather was cool.  Just a great day for running. 

I got back and grabbed a breakfast, got another hour of sleep and read the paper until we left for the meet.

The girls ran 1st and Darian won the meet.  I was also impressed w/ how hard Alexis pushed, but seem flamed out at the end so bad that two of our other girls had to coax her across the finish line.  It was quite a moving situation.  I felt so helpless as she wobbled like a drunk the last 100 yards with Gianna and Laura encouraging her along.  Running generates a feeling of pride and bonding that no other sport can match.

The boys did very well.  5th overall and we continue to progress.  It makes me even more hungry for T&F in the spring. 

Got home @ 12:30 AM

PM got in 8 on the Virgin/BH loop.  I decided to alternate easy mile/marathon pace mile.  It was a nice cool run w/ a full moon.  The rain caved in the trail down by wells fargo, so 2 places along the north side of the trail are closed off now.  I may have to start going out toward warner valleynow.