Believe to Achieve

Long run with Kim for the New Year.  Could hear the answer machine go off downstairs 20 minutes later got out of bed to see who called.  It was Kim my running partner so I had to call her.  We (she wanted to do 7 or so) ran 12.07 miles.   Kim got a garmin so our pace was pretty good even with the special footing on black ice and the up hill thru cedar hills.  Chilly but runnable.  Enjoyed the conversation run at 8:24 pace.  Some miles 8 some 8:45.  But way good New Year run.  Thanks to Kim getting me out.  Was pretty tired after only sleeping three hours yesterday running 8 miles then staying up for the New Year Fireworks (held at my inlaws).  Got to see the movie 7 pounds before in theatres.  Brother in law got it somehow.  Hadn't even heard of the movie.  Good movie, though provoking, terrible tragic.  A Real tear jerker.   Sobbed too. I just do that at those kinds of movies.  A must see especially if you use a cell phone.  HAPPY NEW YEAR and HAPPY RUNNING!!!!!!!!

ATTENTION MUST READ:  Afternoon:  Went sledding with three kids and husband.  Actually I was a nervous wreck.  We went to Tibble Fork (The Bowl) and it was unorganized chaos.  My worry has history.  I crashed into a tree while sledding when I was six years old, got sixteen stitches in my forehead (hairline, upside down V, think Harry Potter), knocked in my baby teeth (they were hanging loose, and dislocated my jaw.  Soooooo... I stood in awe over the many stupid sledders including my own husband who defied me and continued to take my girls up.  If you know the bowl (opposite the lake of Tibble Fork) people come down from different angles without looking, at least the majority and the others stand at the bottom where sledders come flying thru and knock them down like bowling pins or jump out of the way if they are lucky.  But of course I am just standing telling my husband how worried I was (on the incline away from sledders...I thought) then bammmm I was taken down by a flying saucer sled driven by a kid about 12 years old.  It was like someone took a sledge hammer to my ankles (luckily I had Moon boots on, yes I still have a pair from the 80s) snd I fell straight to the side landing hard on the right side of my body.  I currently have a wicked head ache and lots of muscle aches and pains.  I was a lunatic up there.  I couldn't wait until it was over and all my little kids were in one piece at the end.  Amazing how an experience can change you.  I feel like I was the one that did all the sledding with the hit and run.  Arghhh.....well at least it was the right side, lately my injuries have been on the left so I am now evened out. Be careful if you go sledding, really.