End of June

The end of June is quickly approaching and I have started to get a hang of balancing work, running workouts, and P90X.  So far, as of June 27th, I have logged 173 miles of running.  Although the longer runs have become easier, I have set a goal to start making runs faster.  Most miles I am averaging around an 8:45 pace and I would like to continuously drop that to an 8:20 pace.  I've made a new music list to help me do this, mostly consisting of techno music.  :)

Mom continues to fight to get better.  Two weeks ago, Kelsey and I got to spend the weekend with Kelsey's niece Kayleigh.  We drove to Hays on Saturday and visited the Sternberg Museum.  What a great trip!  Kayleigh loves dinosaurs so we thought it would be awesome to check it out.  Here are a few pictures below of the day!

That's a Big Dinosaur!!

Kayleigh through the greenhouse.

Kayleigh was a little scared of T-Rex (her favorite dinosaur)

After the Sternberg Museum, we made our way to Ness City to spend the night with my mom and dad.  Kaleigh was happy to see my mom.  We all loaded up that evening and went to the park where Kayleigh was super impressed with Ness City's park.  She loved going down the slide and showing off for my mom.  

Edited pic......one of my new hobbies.

Like I said, mom continues to fight to get better.  She is continually eating better and getting stronger.  A few times I have called during the evening I have caught mom and dad at one of John's (my cousin) little league baseball games.  I'm glad that she can get out of the house to do these things still.  One thing about Mom, she loves baseball, so June is always spent watching the College World Series.  One of my fondest memories of a child during the summer is watching Wimbledon and the College World Series with mom.  I can remember her and I watching John McEnroe and Jimmy Connors in tennis matches and just spending time together.  Great memories!!

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I Hate It.....But I Love It......

Pretty crazy right?

Yes, Kelsey and I have started the P90X program.  We did this program before we got married and we felt it was time to start it again!  So, last week, we started our adventure.

Are we sore???!!!  Of course, we know that after the first few weeks of working out, the soreness will go away and it will become easier.  I was pretty bummed last Thursday when we couldn't find our Yoga cd since it was one of my favorite workouts.  We will keep you updated with each phase on how we are doing.

After the Suicide Hill Run, my legs were really hurting, so I took a few days off.  I think with the longer runs I'm going on, my body is still getting used to the pounding.  The runs have become harder as well since the weather in Kansas is brutal during the summer.  I decided last week that I would start getting up early in the morning to run some.  There are a few days I will do a morning run and an afternoon run and then take the next day off or do a short run on my off days.  I have to coordinate with the P90X workouts on my days off, so it will be a work in progress over the next few weeks.

I'm not going to be able to make a few races that I wanted to, so I'm going to focus right now mostly on the MOPS run in Marion as well as the half marathon run in September in Hutchinson.

I have a few ideas of some neat mom stories in the next few blogs so stay tuned!!

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