Well my family and I decided to take one last "hoorah" before school starts. So, on Wednesday so we came down to St. George for some needed Family time and relaxation. We have had a great time so far and I feel have accomplished our initial goal (at least the relaxation part). We got down here Thursday morning and so Friday morning I got up and went and swam some laps at the pool (something I have not done for several years). It felt so good to swim and to have a little quiet time. Then Saturday my friend JaNae (who also ventured to George this weekend) and I decided to go run part of the marathon course. However, it was a day of blunders. I met JaNae at the base of the mountain and then we drove up together so that we would have a car up top and at the bottom. First we start driving up the canyon so I re-set my trip gage (knowing that we wanted to go 10 miles) so that we would know where to start. Well we are driving along and come to the first place to drop water (thinking it was about 3 miles from the finish) so we stop and drop water and keep going on our way. Well after another little while, I look down to see how far we have gone and I notice that for some reason (I am sure it had nothing to do with user error) my car was registering Kilometers rather than miles (so yes what we originally thought was 3 miles from the finish was really only like a mile, ha ha). Anyway, we figure things out, re-set another area of the car to keep track of the miles and head up the road. We stop at 10 miles up, get out and start running. It is so beautiful in St. George, there is so much scenery and at so much variety. There were a ton of runners out along the coarse getting ready for the big day. We felt pretty good and were trucking along, when we come to 5.3 miles down and JaNae stops suddenly in her tracks and with a large gasp says "Friend (what we call each other), I forgot my key in your car." ..........Yes, that would be my car, the one back up the mountain 5.3 miles. So, we sit there for a minute and of coarse were like "what other option do we have but to turn around and go back up the mountain?", so we did. Needless to say, now the sun was coming up, it was a little hotter, we are not used to running hills (let a lone a straight 5 miles worth) and so we struggled a little. We walked, and ran, and walked and ran, etc until we got back to the car. We got a little more than we bargained for but all in all, we were in St. George, we were up and out in the morning, we were two friends out running and it was great. Avg. Pace............ brace yourselves you are going to be impressed 10:27, WAHOOO!!
PS. Does anyone have any advice for me regarding a small issue. The last few times I have run, I have a pain in the side of my ankle. You know that bone on the side of your ankle (the one like a little ball on the side of your foot, don't laugh at me, I am not medically educated), that is where it hurts. It almost feels like a dense pain deep inside and almost feels like a stress situation. If anyone has had a similar pain or knows what I can do about it, would you please let me know. Thanks so much!!!
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