pioneer day

My Utah visit post saga continues...

Dan, Joni and I ran a 10k (6.2 miles) in Orem on the 24th.  We were sad that both Matt and Jack who registered were unable to participate due to injuries!  But the rest of us had good time climbing "Goliath" (remember we're in OREM... hence the scriptural reference).  Goliath was a hill that gained over 500 ft in elevation over about a mile!  Yeah, it was crazy hard, way steep and way long!!  But after that the rest of the race was basically down hill.  I passed a lot on the hill because I had trained a lot for that I was prepared... what I didn't train for was all the DOWNHILL.  You'd think that would be easy right?  I struggled, I guess it uses different muscles I hadn't trained much.  Anyway, here are our times:  Joni finished in 48:32 (3rd place), Dan in 51:00, and Jessica 51:07 (2nd place, by ONE SECOND).

I was ahead of Dan the whole race until he passed me right before the finish line, the stinker!  It was really my fault though.  My legs were shot and I was a baby and walked from like the 5.5 mile point to the 6 mile, that's when he caught me.  My consolation was being so SORE I couldn't go up or down stairs for 3 days, so I knew I had pushed myself hard.  Sorry, I could talk about running forever... I'll stop now. :)

    

My parents were kind enough to watch our girls while Dan and I took much needed showers.  So I missed the playground's maiden voyage... check this thing out!!  My dad MADE this himself with no plans or help of any kind, impressive eh?  Sophie loved it.

That evening we went to a Chapman family Luau in my in-law's gorgeous backyard.  We had good food followed by dancing and a limbo.  It was so fun to see family we don't see often enough!  Had to throw in the picture of Tom with his burnt zucchini, that was too funny.  He put it in the oven to keep it warm before dinner and we didn't find it until the party was over and the food was burned onto the pan.