Brush With Fame AND 10K at 10K

Summers are the best and I usually love every weekend because there are just so many fun things to do. Well, on Friday I got to meet one of the Utah Jazz basketball players. Our friends' Melynda and Adam's next door neighbor won a contest where he got a brand new sport court put in his backyard and he got to play b-ball with Matt Harpring. I know, someone in my own neighborhood won! Crazy right?!

Here's the man himself...

Lyd's and I got to meet him and take a pic with him. He seemed like a pretty cool guy.
Matt playing HORSE with the winner. Harpring kept missing shots and blaming it on the wind...what a comedian.
Then on Friday evening we headed down to Sanpete county to have a sleepover with our buds Ben and Emilee so Jake and I could run our very first 10k (6.4 miles) on Saturday morning.
Every time we go down to visit our friends' Jake always has to ride their scooter, and of course he had to take me for a spin. My hubby sure knows how to treat his lady right? A night on the town on a sweet, silver scooter :)

That night we (of course) played SingStar and once again Jake stole the show. Oh, he didn't win, he's just a GREAT entertainer. Notice all the people laughing histerically in the backround. We ADORE Emilee's laugh...it's so contagious.

Here's Jake in action. The bottom right picture is Jake just after singing his favorite song. He always gets a headache from screaming so loud!

On Saturday, we woke up bright and early to get ready for our very first 10k, "The Skyline 10K @ 10K". And man, we were not prepared AT ALL for what was about to happen to us. First of all, Jake and I only trained for 2 weeks (6.4 miles shouldn't be that hard right?). Secondly, we NEVER trained going up hills. Well, little did we know that the first 2 miles of the race were STRAIGHT UPHILL.

So here's how the race went:

Jake and I had to drive to the starting point of the race (isn't it gorgeous?) and that meant driving straight up into the mountains for 8 miles!!! The race started at 9300 feet and 2 miles into the race, you hit the summit of 10,000 feet above sea level. Ok, if any of you are runners, you know that it is one of the hardest things to do, running straight uphill to 10,000 feet; their is just NO air up their. I guess the title of the race

didn't give it away that we were going uphill :) And it wasn't a wussy hill either. It was STRAIGHT uphill with no breaks whatsoever.

But let me tell you, that was the most beautiful run I have ever done. The scenery was breathtaking. All of the lakes and mountains were gorgeous.

Here's Jake and I at the start of the race.

If you want to know Jake's take on the race go to his blog, but here's how I did:

It's a small race: their were only 84 people and I came in 66th place overall, and 6th in my age group (out of 9). I was only 6 minutes late on winning a 3rd place metal. Next year, I'm there, after more training.

At the start of the race going uphill for 2 miles I averaged a 12 minute mile. But once I hit the summit and started down the hill, there was not stopping me, it was like I was running a whole new race.

My best mile was 8 1/2 minutes and my other 3 1/2 miles were an average of 9 to 10 minute miles. I've never run down hill either. I tell you, Jake and I had no idea what we had gotten into and didn't realize the training that was necessary to do well in this particular race. I think Jake chose the hardest 10k in the state of Utah to run. The most we had ever run was 4 miles on a flat surface and that was only 2 days before. But this experience only gives me motivation to kick butt in it next year. This has now become our tradition...running the Sanpete county Skyline 10K @ 10K.

Thanks Ben and Emilee for letting us crash at your house and for taking care of Lydia while we ran. You're the best!

That afternoon, after some much needed body rest, we took Cambree and Lydia to the park, ate dinner and headed home.

We had such a great time. We love our cute little Pehrson family :)

Next weekend should be a good one too when our little Bones marries his Darcie :)