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Location:

Lehi,Ut,USA

Member Since:

Oct 01, 2007

Gender:

Female

Goal Type:

5 K Finish

Running Accomplishments:

My best 5k is 29.27.  

Short-Term Running Goals:

Beat my best 5k time.

Long-Term Running Goals:

I would like to stay fit. I have 6 kids and I want to be physically able to keep up with them. I would eventually like to run some longer races and maybe do a triathalon.

Personal:

I am very happily married, We have 6 children. 4 girls and then we adopted two boy's. They are 17mths, 4,4,4,7 and 11.  

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We had three older boys in our home last year for about 9 months. Matt and I got to know there parents pretty well. I decided that there dad was a decent guy and he really loved his boy's. He did everything he could to get them back and living with him. I watched and helped bring these boy's and there dad come together. Well last night he was killed in an acident at work, he was crushed my his front end loader.  So those boy's have nothing.

Anyways I have this horriable head cold and I cried a good part of last night and I can't seem to shut the tears off even today. 

I am not sure how running and being sick works.  I know I could channel my anger and hurt of this death into running a good run but I am not sure if it is bad on the cold.  

 

Comments
From Sasha Pachev on Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 12:33:54

An easy run can help calm down the emotions, and clear out the cold as well. Keep it easy, and if necessary make it short. I would do your regular 4 miles at about 12:00 pace.

From Michelle on Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 12:38:20

I'm so sorry to hear about the accident. That is so sad. What will happen to the boys now? I just don't know how you do it. You must have blessings in so many ways with all that you do to help so many kids and families heal and grow!

From kt on Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 12:51:47

Well the boy's are with there mom. She is doing better than I thought she was but has still not been clean yet for over a year and she just married a man she met in recovery. She lets the boys do what ever they want include smoking they are 15 9 and 13. The 13 year old is still in a specialized home because he dose not want to go home.

This was the one family that I was so glad when those boys went home with there dad. We became pretty good friends he ate dinner over while we had the boys and he helped us with so gravel we needed for the side of our house. He was a good guy who was always in the right place at the wrong time. Even in his death.

I don;t think those boys have a fight chance with out him. They will both end up at the point of the mountain. I would bet money on that.

I am very blessed for doing what I do. BUt days like today I wonder if it is worth all the heart ache sometimes.

I put so much time and effort into this family. Matt was his peer parent so we spent a coupe nights a week going over parenting things and just hanging out as families to set a good example for him in how he should parent his kids. There was never a time that we talked to him that he did not thank us for all we had done for there family. Just to have it end in death. Unbelieveable.

From Michael on Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 14:50:00

So sorry for that loss. Its probably especially hard when you want a better future outcome for the boys and cant control the desired outcome. Hopefully in the long run the boys will remember the good they saw in their Dad and it will be incorporated into their future

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