Nancy's Blog

I did my arm weight exercises after work.  After dinner I swam laps with Leslie.  An amazing thing happened today.  I was able to swim 11 laps front crawl, take a short break and then do 9 more laps and I wasn't even dead.  I'm not sure if it was because I was trying to swim slower or If I wasn't quite as tired when I strated out, anyway I didn't hate the swimming like I usually do.

Met the group at Bingham for the early miles.  Duke and I led the way for the first part but got tired by the middle.  After the early miles the group was running on the track, so Duke and I ran down 2200 and through a few subdivisions and then back to Bingham.  Tonight Leslie and I rode our bikes on our 9 mile course.  Leslie didn't crash and almost kept up with me.  We had to stop once when Leslie got a bug in her eye.  We need to remember to wear sunglasses next time.

I did my leg weight exercises along with stomach exercises and 80 mens pushups.  Leslie and I didn't swim becasue Kent and I went to a wedding dinner at the Lion House.

I went to Leslie's house this morning with Duke and we ran 3 miles.  Leslie has a cold and we didn't want to over due it before the Ogden Half Marathon on Saturday.

I had an enjoyable time at the Ogden Marathon for the most part. Chrissy, Leslie, Angie, Becca and I drove to Ogden Friday afternoon. Jenny met us there. We stayed at the Hampton Inn. It was a very nice hotel. Bridget, my youngest daughter met us at our hotel with her baby Sicily. We had and fun time. We ate dinner at the Olive Garden and then went back to our hotel to relax. I really thought it was great to have 6 of my 7 daughers there. We got up at 4:30 and caught the bus to the Half-Marathon. When we got to the bonfire, the first person I saw was Mike, Peggy's husband. We (Chrissy, Leslie, Jenny and I) had a good time visiting with him. When the race started Leslie, Jenny and Chrissy and I stayed together for about 2 minutes. Then they were all ahead of me. I wasn't trying to set any records because I felt lucky to even be running the race. After the Riverton 1/2 Marathon I wasn't able to run for over 3 weeks. I was only able to do one long run of 10 miles before the race. I tried to keep a steady pace of 10 minute miles. When I got to the downhill part and knew it was going to be a long race when it didn't really feel like downhill to me. When I got to the 12 mile mark I knew I would make it, but the last mile was extra hard. I even had to walk once for about a minute. When I got to the finish line I guess I was pretty tired because two people hung onto to me as I was about to faint and took me to the medical tent. I felt okay after about 10 minutes. I wanted to get back to our hotel so we didn't miss our free breakfast. Chrissy finished in 1hr 44 mins, Leslie and Jenny finished in 1hr 54 minutes with Leslie coming in about 10 seconds after Jenny.  I finished in 2hrs 15 mins.   The rest of the day I really felt tired and a little bit sick.