The John Family Blog

Mikey's obsession with the Cars movie has gone too far....He used to be afraid of the tractor tipping scene in the movie, now he's finding ways to reenact it.

Takes me back to Junior High choir... ha ha ha

It's later than I wanted to post, but here is my results. 6.2 miles in 1 hour 31 mins and 38 seconds. Pretty pitiful, although I almost ran the whole thing. I realized within about the first quarter mile that my sister Amy's pace was too fast for me. I wasn't ready for the elevation change, running through the woods, watching for rocks, sticks and piles of pine needles, plus all the up hills. That first mile sign I went, "you've got to be kidding me!" and then at mile 2 I thought, "I'm in trouble" - all these old people walking we're passing me up, so I gave up on the whole, 'I have to jog the whole thing' and started power walking up the hills. Then I got to a down hill section and started sprinting. I must have missed the three mile marker, because I shouted for joy when I got to mile four. I ran all of mile 5 and 6, but by then my knees and hips were aching and I couldn't lengthen my stride. It was kind of nice to be in the back of the pack. There were a lot of sections where I was by myself and I could sing along with my mp3 player. I feel like a big whiner after reading about the marathon my brother and bro-in-law just did in St George, but this was the farthest I've ever run. I'm going to do the 10k at the Turkey Trot in Mesa and see if I can shave about a 1/2 hour off my time.