I Run

Early Saturday morning, I crawled out of my nice warm bed so I could drive up to Boston with my friend {she's from Farmington, UT!} to run in the BYU Alumni 5K.  The wind was bitter cold and I sprinted at the start just to try to warm up my body.  I even paid a $25 registration fee for this torturous run in the cold which probably sounds like a dumb thing to do, but it was fun.
I love to run. 
I'm not awesome at it by any means but I accepted my mediocrity a long time ago.  Speaking of a long time ago, I ran a marathon.  It took me a little over 4 hours to run and it made me so sick of running I vowed I'd never do another one.  Still haven't. 
Anyway,  I've had a couple awesome running experiences {read here}, but most of the time I'm just out running so I can cope--Cope with life, cope with death {read here}, cope with my kids, cope with my love of cheesecake {read here}, just to name a few.
Now, for the first time in ever, I have a couple running buddies.  We run together every Saturday morning, rain or shine.  We talk the whole time while we huff and puff and I love it.  It's the next best thing to running with my sisters.  Here's a few pics of me with my sisters back in the day when I could run fast simply because I was young and healthy. . . .those were such good days.  Sigh.

Wasatch Back Ragnar 2007 - The last photo of all 5 sisters together. 

Running the Farmington Festival 5K - a family tradition

Winning the 5K - Four of us placed in our age group.  We were young so we were fast!