Wow has it been a busy couple of days!! I started out Saturday with the Warrior Dash. IT. WAS. AWESOME! I had soooo much fun! A few years ago I would have never thought running would be fun let a lone running an obstical course! Hey Fred, lets run up hills in the timber, climb rope walls, crawl through dirt trenches and jump over fire at 11:30 on a 95* day in July with no breeze just to see what it's like!!!! Absolutley Wilma, sounds like the thing we should do! Is not a conversation that would have ever crossed my mind let alone come out of my mouth! But that was the coolest thing I have ever done! Sweat, tears, yes tears(See details later about the massive pop from my foot at 1/4 mile) and mud! MUD has never felt so good! it was cool when all else what hot, sticky sweaty, dusty and burnt! I can not wait for pictures to come out on Thursday!! So the massive pop in my foot...I'm at the second obstical. Over the half wall, under the barb wire. Yes I nailed it. Ok I've got this and I am supper pumped right now. Adrenaline is raging! WooWoo!! Approaching second wall, left knee comes up as I push off of my right foot and HOLY MOTHER OF JESUS I THINK SOMEONE JUST SHOT ME IN THE FREAKING FOOT!!!! Eyes fill with tears as I leap over the wall and under the wire, over the wall, yep that still hurts, under the wire and jog off down the trail into the timber. Yep still hurts, pretty dam bad, "I think I'm in trouble" I said out loud to my closest running partner, but I will not cry. I will not stop. I WILL finish this race WITHOUT support! Stupid decision to run on my foot the next 2.5 miles while it feels as though every muscle in my arch has been torn to shreads, yes. The satisfaction of knowing I completed that race and did my best with an ailment, Priceless! Hurt or not I will most deffinatley without a doubt run another Warrior Dash!! Then I came home and was supposed to run a 6 mile run for a benefit but couldn't really even walk. So I borrowed the neighbors bike and rode in the bike group instead of running it. This to was so much fun! I think it is time I buy a bike! I could get used to riding! I am already looking foreward to next year! Check it out at www.bar2barbara.com

I think I was asleep by 9:00 that night and off to work on Sunday. And yes the foot is still sore! Sunday wasn't a great day. I gave in and had some cream cheese mints from a party the day before and that started the spiral. I ate a lot of them, like 20!! and then ate chinese and a butterfinger blizzard before the end of the day! All because I ate one little mint. I know better and really kick myself when I do stupid things like that!


After warrior dash, yes we had been washed off by the fire trucks already.