Running Blog

Okay, okay, okay. I am, in fact, alive. And I promise, starting today, I will be much more diligent about updating. Today I ran with Stoner. She brought her knife in case any Quail Ridge creepers tried to kidnap us. Luckily, no one did, but she threatened a little tiny dog and threw the knife at a lady doing yard work. And the sad part is.. I'm not even joking. Oh how I have missed running with this girl. I felt okay.. I could definitely feel the three days I missed while in Salt Lake last week. And the pace was a lot quicker than I do by myself too.. but that felt good, actually. All in all, it was a good run.

Today was Mia's day to run with me.. we planned on running at 7, but she can't actually be on time to save her life, so we got going at 7:30. It was.. HOT. Neither of us really felt very good, but we ran and finished. Then we went and bowled and played frisbee and watched Stoner slip and fall on her butt right in time to avoid being hit in the face with a sprinkler. Funniest thing I've ever seen, for sure.

Oh my heck. Best run EVER!! After a few hours at the river, Mia and I met up with Stoner  to run.. We drove my truck out to the Motel 6 to save our spot for fireworks later, then we ran back to my house. But it was only 4 miles, so we had to add on.. we were pretty creative. We began the run with Mia pulling a knife on some lady who walked into the bathroom at Sinclair And Backlebee. Then we went up into Middleton and found the coolest/creepiest machine ever at the park there.. it would record your voice, then play it back to you all weird. Then we continued on, trying to find a way out of Middleton and saw the cutest bunny statue in someones yard. Oh wait.. it wasn't a statue. It was just a giant bunny that was very good at sitting still. Scared the crap out of me. Finally we found a way out, but a white cat started chasing us, and we had to hop a fence. Then I found a plastic army guy whose leg was (almost) amputated in battle. We found a shopping cart not far beyond that, and put him in it, along with Mia, and tried to push it to the road. We didn't get very far. We each had a turn riding in it until we got it to the road entering Middleton, where we left it. We did some somersaults on a grass hill, then ran up Green Springs Drive and added on a little more through the desert by the golf course.. and we ran through the sprinklers on the golf course too. And then some more sprinklers by the pro shop, which soaked us. At that point, we started talking about hippie mermaids and such things.. I've definitely missed these conversations. And the weather was perfect. And to end the night, FIREWORKS!! Which are kinda my favorite ever. Basically, today was kind of amazing. The end.

I got off work early today.. Hallelujah. Although it is getting more enjoyable.. I'm pretty sure it was designed as a constant reminder of how unfit I am to work outdoors. I've been (almost) dragged into a pond by a mower, fallen face first into the bunker I had just raked, dropped a trailer door on my leg, and just today, slipped on some grass while mowing and smacked on the ground on my side, with my mower falling over a few inches away. Luckily, there were only three people around for that one, and they weren't watching. Anyway, what I'm trying to say, is that it was a good thing today was a short day. Because it was, I went running right after work. Except my mom has become extraordinarily grumpy every time I ask her to run with me. So Alli came, and rode her bike beside me while I ran. It was SO. HOT. And Alli wouldn't stop for water at the Chevron cause apparently it scares her (although I don't really blame her; it is kinda ghetto). So we went without water. I went from feeling really good to feeling super crappy like every 5 minutes, but I'm glad I got it over with and don't have to worry about it tonight. Cause yesterday I waited til it got cool, then my parents informed me that they didn't want to come with me, and I wasn't allowed to go by myself in the evening because I might get stolen. I blame Mia for this, because it was her blog that my mom snooped into and read about the creeper man. But I'm gonna try and do yesterday's run on Sunday (sinning, I know, but I already have to work that day, so I might as well just be absolutely terrible instead of just kinda terrible).

Long run for the week: FINISHED! kaylee, Mia, stoner and I ran out in the fields, through sand and sprinklers and such. It was dandy. My right foot kinda hurt.. Not sure what was going on there, but hopefully it's not anything. I am thouroughly convinced, however, that I am not going to make it through the summer alive. After the run, iwas driving home and this car was right on my tail all the way from the log lane church to Washington elementary. Then I turned, and the car kept going.. But then it turned around and drove past the street I had just turned on.. Then it backed up and turned down the street I was on! Yes, I was watching out my rear view mirror the entire time I was driving. It's a good thing not many living beings were out on the streets. Anyway, the car kept following me all the way to quail ridge, where I turned.. And the car turned with me, then passed me and stopped at the stop sign and waited for me to come up behind it.. and a man got out and came to my window and knocked.. Okay, just kidding. When I turned at quail ridge, it went straight and I never saw it again. Pretty anticlimactic, huh. But I was still super freaked out. The end.