Running, Football, Dancing and More...

This weekend was one of those crazy weekends with so much going on all we did was run from one event to another.  I'm finally feeling like I have a minute to sit down and breath today.  Friday was Andrew's district cross country meet.  I thought this might be kind of a let down for him after such a big win at Bob Firman.  Even though this was a much smaller race Andrew still has some amazing teammates to push him.  It was a cool, rainy afternoon.  Andrew finished 4th with the top 5 runners all coming from Mt. Ogden, sweeping the district championship. He finished the two mile course in 12:33, (6:16 mile pace.)  It's been fun to see all these boys on the team improve so much this year.  They have one more race this week to finish off their season.

The boys celebrating their win.

Both the girls and boys from Mt. Ogden were district champions!

Saturday started early with Jason headed to the bus for the Huntsville marathon.  It was a chilly morning with frost on the ground at home and he was heading up to Monte Cristo at 8,000 ft for the start of the race where there was snow on the ground.  While he was on his way to the start the rest of us were out the door early for Jared's last football game of the season.

I told Jared to smile for this picture and he said he did!

After game treats are still the best part for this kid.

The sun was finally up halfway through Jared's game and it started to warm up a bit.  We caught the first half of Kaitlyn's soccer game and then headed up to Huntsville to cheer Jason on at the end of his race.  We were watching the half marathon runners coming by and I was starting to get really worried when Jason still hadn't come several minutes after I was expecting him.  What I didn't know is that the full marathon had started late so he wasn't as far back as I thought.  He looked good with a mile and a half left but I could tell he was hurting.  The race has a super steep downhill first half and flattens out later in the race.  A lot of the full marathoners looked like they were really feeling terrible towards the end.  This isn't the greatest picture since I got him opening the water bottle but it's the only one I got.

We had to really hurry to make it to the finish but got there just in time.  He finished in 2:52:51 in 9th place overall and 1st in his age division.  He would have liked to have been a couple minutes faster.  He said that second half was pretty tough and 10 minutes slower than the first half but it was a great race on a tough course.

When we got home Saturday afternoon I had just enough time to squeeze in one of my last training runs before St. George and then we were off to the Weber State homecoming game.  Jason was working at the game which meant I got to take all four kids myself.  It brought back memories of all those time he was in fellowship and I took the kids alone to games while he worked.  Luckily Andrew and Jared are old enough to take care of themselves now as long as I buy them plenty of treats.  Kaitlyn got to perform at halftime with the Jr. Wildcat Spirit Squad.  Her dance teacher is one of the Weber State dancers and she loved getting out there and dancing with the cheerleaders and dancers.