A busy summer...

Sorry I've been MIA for a couple of weeks. Summer has been busy and it's almost over!

My son starts school next Monday! Where did the summer go?? 

We also moved last week. That was a long process and were are not completely done but just about.



Our new home. I love it!!



I absolutely love our new home. It's bigger than our last house which was much needed.

But the best part about the move? I have so many different running routes that don't involve lots of busy streets and traffic lights. And I don't have to drive anywhere to get a good run in, I can finally just run out my front door! I have so many more options - There's flat roads, hilly roads and there's some trails that are near me too!

Here's some pics from my last run.  

 

Flat stretch with a paved trail that runs on both sides of the roads.



The view going back to my house was a lot better



Beautiful sunrise



If you can't tell I am seriously excited about the new running routes. Hopefully this will give me the kick start I need to start running more often. It's been really difficult to get out the door. With the hot temps I need to wake up to run before work which is still difficult to do! And then the smoke in the air from all the fires we have has been really bad. But really I just need to stop making excuses and do it!

I'm hoping after this week I can get into more of a routine. Today we started a 4 week weight loss and fitness challenge at work. This week our focus is more healthy/clean eating. Next week we will incorporate exercise. We are actually posting our results in our office and on our Facebook page. I may post them on here too. But our hope is to get some of our patients to want to join in on our healthy living journey.

Well that's all for now. I am at work so better get back to actually working!

I'll try to not take another month to post on here :) 

I'll leave you with a picture of me and Dash enjoying a hot summer day while Gene was BBQing for us...

I Heart Trail Running

This past weekend I did back to back runs on the trails.

Saturday I ran 7 miles and Sunday I ran 8.



Wore Blue to the hills

My paces were slow and I walked a lot of the uphills.

Especially on Sunday because my legs were sore from the previous day. But I loved being out there.

There is just something different about being out on the trail, overlooking Boise.

There was a section of the trail where I was all alone for a little while.

No mountain bikers or other runners in site. To know your are so close to the city yet it seems so far away at the same time. I love it.

It was also fun to get to break in my new trail shoes and get them dirty!



Pretty clean shoes, dirty fun shoes!



After Saturday's trail run we all had some lunch then walked over to Camel's Back park and tried running up the big hill.

Hill repeats anyone?

Yea we couldn't run up it but it we did make it to the top and had some fun before heading back down.



Climed to the top with my son (in purple) and my nephew. You can see Dash chasing them up the hill



Midway down Dash decided he was done and laid down in the shade and wouldn't move.



Dash resting in the shade refusing to go back down.

Literally wouldn't move for anything! I actually had to carry him down haha.

This is his happy face

After Sunday's run all I was focusing on was some one on one time with the Tiger Tail. (It is similar to The Stick). After trying it out at the Seattle Rock n Roll expo I knew I wanted one. I ordered one and it finally came in last week and I have been loving it!



I Heart Happy Muscles



I used it to work out some knots in my left calf that I didn't even really feel before until I was rolling over it with the Tiger Tail. The next day I had some major soreness but now my calf feels great! The past few months I have had some posterior shin splints in my left leg and my last few runs I haven't felt the shin splints at all! I have been so thankful for my pain free runs and it couldn't come as a better time as I am ready to start increasing my weekly mileage in preparation for my next big race. But more on that soon :) 

Can't wait to get out to the trails this weekend and enjoy some of natures beauty. 

Happy Independence Day!

Happy Independence Day!

Today I ran 4 miles. Four miles for the Fourth :)

On my drive home from my run I saw the above going down the street.

Beautiful to see.

I wanted to get on really quick and ask you all to go over to Another Mother Runner and check out their Why I Run, where I am lucky enough to be featured today.

Thank you Dimity & Sarah for allowing me to share my story and getting the word out about

 Wear Blue Run to Remember.

I also wanted to share with you a link to a story that will be featured on HLN tonight titled

 "Red, white, blue & purple: A Warrior Wife's First 4th.

I just recently started reading her blog After Blast Warrior Wife. I definitely recommend it for a look into the life of a wounded warrior wife.

Read her story on HLN (here).

Thank you to her husband SPC Aaron Causey for his service. And thank you Kathleen for being a strong Military wife.  

Thank you to all our Soldiers out there fighting now for our freedom.