***Real quick! I am planning on going to watch TOU next weekend, if anyone wants a ride up that morning, let me know. I'm in Bountiful and can meet up with anyone on the way. I'd love the company. I can take up to 6 others. I think it would be fun to bring our bikes and ride up part of the course so we can see more of the race. I'd be open to running instead too. There are so many people running, I want to cheer them all on! AM: I wanted to come out and support the Classic 5k for heart health. This is really great race for the value. You definitely get more than you pay for, thanks to all of the volunteers. I paied $15 for an early entry (plus a discount from my work). You get a goody bag with a great long sleeve tech shirt, certificates to vendors, sunscrean, a small first aid kit, pen and a few other odds and ends my kids liked. The kids K was also a great value. For $2.50 (discount through work again, $5 origainally) my son recieved a goody bag filled with toys and a cool red shirt. They had mascots, a helicopter, Miss Utah, balloon animals, vendors with free samples and plenty of Great Harvest bread and fruit at the finish. The best part of it all was awards were picked up on your own. After you look up your time, you report your finsihed and gather your reward. None of this waiting around stuff. Plus the drawings were similar. They pulled out all of the numbers that won, posted them and if you see your number, you grab a prize out of the desiganted area. My daughter won a nice hat from Striders I plan to steal. Overall great race. We lined up to the start. I had all my kids with me. Jocelyn and I signed up for the 5k together (she is known as Joss on the blog, go say hi). This was her second or third time running this distance. I had my two younger boys sitting in a single running stroller. My 2 year old sat on my 6 year old's lap with his arms wrapped tightly around my toddler. Great restraints:) We got a few worried looks but hey, we're just keeping it classy folks, classy for the Classic 5k. The gun went off and Jocelyn went off in a sprint. Uh oh! I weaved like a mad women to catch up with the stroller. My two boys just laughed and cheered me on as I pushed. Jocelyn held on tight and never walked. I was quite impressed. We saw a girl ahead about her age, I took a mental note to keep her in my sight. I knew if I told Jocelyn to watch for her, she would have sprinted past, then died. Slowly we worked our way past her in the last 3/4 mile. At that time we thought she was in first, but alas the results showed her in second (28:44) by 2 seconds. She got a award that she plans to wear all day. We stayed after for the kids K. My 6 year old ran it with a smile the entire way. He looked way cool doing it!:) Jocelyn and I got massages afterwards while I visited with Angie B and Jassmine Sessions. We plan to run together soon. So glad to have met Jassmine in person, we live close enough to run together. Hopefully our schedules will work out. I believe they ran the 10k and finished 1 and 2. Nice work ladies! I love the power of mantras. I used my first manta in High School while training for State my Senior Year. It was "Just do it!" I know, very original. However, it has changed over the years as it the old ones have turned stale. I practice them during training and attach a meaning with them to make it count. I think that is a great mental trick for runners. I asked my daughter what she was thinking in the last mile when she was really tired. I asked, "Were you thinking of walking? That this was too hard?" She replied, "No mom, I just kept thinking about the 'Olympics' and thought about all of those fast runners. It made me hold on when it was really hard." I LOVE that. Go Jocelyn! Today, run for those who can't. Work that heart! Happy running. PM: 10k at 7:30 AP. Took it easy until the last 1.25 miles, picked up to 6:40 pace, no issues:)
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