Week 17 Update: 2,982 Miles

Looks like I forgot to post Week 16 on here, so we'll just skip forward to week 17! This week's miles brought us to a total of 742 miles, and the city of Helper, UT. We still have a very long ways to go before we get to Houston, but hopefully the new year and new goals will give us a little boost! 

Thought this might be a fun little addition to these posts too... here is a historical photo of Helper back when it was a young coal mining town, followed by a picture of Main Street as it is today.

Week 15 Update: 2,982 Miles

It's hard to believe we are already 15 weeks into this challenge, but here we are! This week we added another 32 miles, to bring the total to 677 miles. We are now at the fork in the road where we will leave I-15 and head up Spanish Fork Canyon on Highway 6. That canyon is very beautiful, and I wish we were actually running it together! Great job on logging more miles this week, ladies, and I am anxious to see what week 16 brings!

Cottonwood Heights Thanksgiving Day 5k

This was the third year that I ran the Cottonwood Heights Thanksgiving Day 5k, and it was a lot of fun! Now that it has been three years, it is officially a tradition for me. I wake up at the crack of dawn, get the turkey prepped to go in the oven, get dressed for the 5k, put the turkey in the oven, and walk the 1/2 mile to the start line. And I always dress up as a Green Bay Packer. There is a house along the route that has had Packer fans outside cheering for the runners all three years that I have run it, and it is so much fun to run by and give them all high fives and cheer and whoop and holler with them. Their house is at a great location in the race for a little extra encouragement too - about half a mile from the finish line. Great last little boost of energy! This year I ran into my friend Sarah while we were running and we ran together toward the finish for a little bit. So good to see her, and yet another great Turkey Trot in the books! Maybe next year, I'll even try to shave a few minutes off my 5k PR. 

Congratulations to Lacy!

Huge congratulations go out to Lacy and her husband, Pat, who welcomed their daughter, Siena to their family in October of this year. We are thrilled for their family, and I'm sure Siena will be out running with her mom in no time at all. And truth be told, The Sweat Sisters Family is really excited to have another little lady coming up in the ranks with us. Someday we will be running Ragnar Relays with a team full of our daughters (and maybe eventually sons)! Haha! Lacy is already a great momma to this little girl, and we can't wait to meet her. In other exciting news, Lacy also just got cleared by her doctor to start running again, so I know she is thrilled about that. It won't be long before she is beating me in mileage every week again. 

Congratulations on a perfect and healthy little girl, Lacy!

Week 14 Update: 2,982 Miles

We are so excited that we made it to Salt Lake during Week 14 of our challenge! We completed 32 additional miles this week, bringing the grand total so far to 645 miles. We have turned around and are headed south out of Salt Lake toward Houston. Right now we are kind of backtracking, but in a week or two, at most, we should be on to new roads and a whole new portion of this adventure. The leg from Salt Lake to Houston is 1,482 miles, making it by far the longest leg of the challenge. Any guesses how many weeks it will take us to get to Houston? Keep in mind that marathon season is just around the corner. ;)

Week 13 Update - 2,982 Miles

13 weeks in the books, 613 miles behind us, and only 12 miles more to go before we reach our first major milestone of this challenge. I do have to say that this challenge is kind of flying by. As the 2015 race season draws nearer and we have events on the calendar to train for, I'm sure our mileage will start increasing from week to week, and the 2,982 miles will fly by even faster. We still have a long ways to go before we get to Atlanta, but I'm sure when we look back at this challenge when it is done, it will seem like it happened in the blink of an eye. Great job ladies, and keep up the good work!