Run like a girl
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Kiera put together a team of women for the Thanksgiving Day cross-country race put on by the Southern Arizona Roadrunners. It's at the local park and includes hay bales and puddle jumps - what fun!!!
Kiera's husband, Mike, often runs for The Running Shop!, and Kiera's been known to drop of goodies at the shop from time to time (World's Best Baker: Kiera). So once we got the team together, we decided we needed shirts. The Running Shop offered to donate them, woo hoo!
Hopefully my knee will be better by then; I got a whopping four miles last week due to my cranky right ITB. I'm hoping that rest will help it heal. I don't like missing out on running! Kiera and I had a great run on Saturday, though, at Sabino Canyon, followed by wrestling a 4-yr old, almost 4-yr old and 1.5 yr old into and out of a car for a looooong trip to Buckalew Farm, a pumpkin patch waaaay outside of town. It was ultimately fun, but absolutely exhausting - at least for the moms! Dusy and hot, too. Also, I'm quite excited - I bought an antenna, so I got to watch FOOTBALL yesterday afternoon, woo hoo! :D
Pics are up!
Comments
Sorry about your cranky ITB! I feel your pain. Here's to rest and healing! : )
Posted by: Sarah | October 30, 2006 01:31 PM
Hope your ITB starts behaving soon! Rest up and get back on the trails soon. (also ... nice to hear from you again)
Posted by: Phil | October 30, 2006 02:15 PM
Have you tried "The Stick" for your IT band? My wife had issues with her IT band before her marathon last month, and it helped tremendously both leading up to it and for her recovery. www.thestick.com
Posted by: David | October 30, 2006 06:12 PM
where is your ITB? I have been having lots of trouble with my knee and wonder if that's what's wrong?
Posted by: Lyndsey | October 30, 2006 06:54 PM
Wow that race sounds like tons off fun!
Posted by: Jessica | October 30, 2006 07:26 PM
Nice job of Kiera putting that team together. Your son is ADORABLE.
Posted by: D | October 31, 2006 08:56 AM
Ash is so cute!!! Just like mom:)
Posted by: olga | October 31, 2006 09:15 AM
Great pics!
And jumping over those bails of hay... Maybe a hurdler?
Posted by: Josh | October 31, 2006 10:23 AM
This ITB virus is going around!
I took some time off and rested and stretched and used the Stick and am pretty much back to normal. But then I walked down some stairs today. Ouch!
Posted by: Renee | October 31, 2006 12:54 PM
Those pics are soooooooo cute!
Watch that ITB, those things can get nasty.
Posted by: Thomas | November 1, 2006 09:37 AM
Cute pics!! It looks like a lot of fun was had on the farm!
Posted by: Rae | November 2, 2006 04:04 AM
Wonderful pics! Looks like fun.
When my ITB gives me a hard time, nothing works better than pool running (getting in the deep end and pretending you're running in nice long strides). 3-4 sessions of 20 minutes gets me back on track.
Have fun at the Tgiving race!
SD
Posted by: Scott | November 3, 2006 05:32 PM
Great pictures. Your child looks 30 feet tall in the last one. In Phoenix, west on I-10 there are some billboards of giant kids that he reminds me of.
Pat
Arizona, USA
Posted by: Pat monahan | November 5, 2006 07:24 PM
Running, football and pumpkins - isn't that what life should be about on fall days? Thanks for sharing the pictures - they're awesome. And on your last post . . . life works in strange ways sometimes - keep hanging on and you'll get through it - somehow, some way, it always works out.
Posted by: Ginger Breadman | November 5, 2006 08:51 PM
Catching-up!
Great photos...I'm happy running and things are going well for you. KEEP ON!
Posted by: Ryan | November 6, 2006 08:42 AM