Monday, June 23, 2008

Race Weekend




Shay, Heidie & Jen. My fav shoes. Ben with snowball.


This weekend was race weekend for the Wasatch Back. Shane was good enough to watch the kids. He had a hard week at work so I left him a note telling him thank you for helping and thanks for being a such good dad. He called Fri. night to see how the race was going, after I gave him the race update he said "by the way I am not a very good dad", I asked him why he would say that. He said that he had forgotten the kids at Chalisa's house and had to drive back down to get them.
This year for the race I got to be in the 2nd vehicle. It was pretty cool to see the other legs of the race. It was fun to meet new people. I met a guy on our team who was so impressive. He was so humble and kind. Now we are talking that this guy was doing 5 min. miles. It was pretty funny, we had stopped at a exchange waiting for our other van. So of us tried to get some rest but Ben had gone and ate and was coming back with some hot chocolate. He saw a baby kitty and thought that he would call to it and try to help it. As Ben got closer the "kitty" lifted its tail and Ben quickly realized that this "kitty" did not need help. Luckily he did not get sprayed.

Our team this year finished in 27 hours and 30 min. We finished 190 out of 500. I am already starting to think about next year.

Kris (my sister) and her little family came to cheer me on in Hunstville. It was fun to have them come up.

JT is off to scout camp this week. He is not very excited about it. He would rather be going to work with his dad every day.
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Pitcherpost said...

Great blog Kara, if you want Mel to make a sweet header for you I'm sure that she will. She's getting real good with Photoshop

June 26, 2008 at 6:08 AM

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