October 17, 2012

I was thinking about it the other day, and I could not remember the last time I saw my family in Vegas. Most of my family has come out here to see me, which has been very nice, but in the last month I have been able to go twice!

The sad part is I hardly took any pictures! When I went a few weeks ago, I met up with my sister and niece for a Saturday run. They have been practicing for a 5k and I am getting ready for a 5k this Saturday, so it was nice to go out and jog it. My niece has gotten so old! She looks like a pro!

Future marathon runner in training. Speaking of that. I have committed to my other niece (who is 15 years older than this niece), that I would love to join her for the St. George Marathon in October 2013. I am so excited to train for that! I never thought I would try a marathon, but I REALLY want to do this and I’m using it as my motivation for the next year. (Plus I heard there was a lot of downhill on it.)

Running is awesome. Too bad while you are running it isn’t fun, but the after effects are what keeps me going.

The other set of pictures I have from Vegas are when I went for my Mom’s birthday/Mike’s Viva Bike Vegas trip.

It was nice to get the whole family together so we could catch up, even though it was such a whirlwind weekend!

I mean, look at these cute faces! How could you not miss that??

Can’t wait to see everyone again in December!

So I have been taking it easy the last couple months now that school has started (stay tuned as to why I haven’t been racing…I’m sure you can guess!). So I decided to go on a hike while Mike biked the Ocho course. Love that course! I love how it has an awesome, long, drawn-out climb, and then once you get to the top….it’s all downhill from there!

I could barely geta hold of Mike on the downhill because of his super speed down the hill!

Meanwhile, Barney and I decided to take a stroll, and of course had to play a quick game of fetch.

We then proceeded to go the top of the hill and see what was on the other side. Since it was close to sunset, we heard a pack of coyotes VERY nearby. If any of you know me, I am insanely afraid of them, plus add the fact that my dog is miniature in size and well…we booked it!