New Record

I may have set a new world record today for longest distance run at one time...14 miles.  Of course it is just a personal world record, but world record nonetheless.  We were driving up to Afton to visit my parents and get a christmas tree today, so I had to go early.  I woke up at 4:45 and got out by about 5:15.  I was a tepid 31 degrees today.  Thinking that was still really cold, I wore the same thing as I did on Monday when it was only 6 degrees.  Needless to say I was a little warm, but once you sweat a bunch, you are kind of locked in to what you are wearing.  Everything was so wet after 3 miles that I had to keep all the layers on or I would have frozen.  Even unzipping my pullover made me too cold.  Next time I'm shedding a layer up top before I even go out.

I remembered a sports drink today.  I diluted it with an extra 8 oz. of water, so it wasn't too sweet.  I used 2 gu's and 2 full bananas along with 24 oz. of sports drink and 16 oz. of water.  I felt pretty good until mile 11.  I pushed through to almost mile 13, but I had to walk a quarter mile before I could finish.  My left knee was really sore when I finished, but nothing an ice bath couldn't fix.

We left for Wyoming about 30 minutes after I got home.  Lizzy drove so I could work on my paper.  3 hours in the car is tough after running 14 miles.  We drove up to Grover Park to cut down our tree.  It is very normal to see a lot of snow up the canyon, but today the plow apparently didn't want anyone going up the canyon because they had built a snow barrier right in the road.  I told my Dad, who came along in his Grand Cherokee, that if he could make it I knew I could too.  He gunned it right over/through the barrier so i had to follow.  No one had been up where we were, so we just drove in about 2 feet of snow.  It was awesome.  I just threw the M-Class in low range and never had an issue.


Lizzy picked a tree about 100 feet up a sheer cliff.  She couldn't quite make it up to where the tree was, so up I went.  It turned out the tree was a little taller than I thought from down below.  I cut down the 18 foot monster and took it down the hill.  It was about 30 degrees, so the kids had a great time playing in the snow without getting too cold.  We had a great time and got an awesome tree.

So my mom tells Lizzy and me that my uncle just had surgery.  Lizzy asked what kind of surgery it was.  My mom says, "Prostate surgery."  I say, "Ouch."  Lizzy asks, "Where did they do the surgery?"  I respond quickly, "Up his butt."  My mom thought it was hilarious.  That of course has very little to do with my training, but I thought it was the funniest thing, so I had to capture it here...you're welcome.