Marathon Training?

Mrs. Arlette Goofy & ME!!

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Crazy? I am going to train to run a FULL MARATHON!!!!



So I have decided to run a marathon, some dear friends are there to cheer and some think I have flat lost my mind, I love the sistas!! This will be my story, I will start off with a little of history!

It all starts in Summer 2011, Arlette was doing the Goofy(half & full marathon, one day a apart), Wendi was doing the Full and Jill talks me into doing the half, I thought yeah this is one of those things on my bucket list, but I was worried that I would get swept and that would have been more than I could handle…So I start to train and it seems I can never get into a routine! December comes around and I sign up to the local gym and start using the tread mill…

Its Trip time, after a knock down drag out fight with DH, I made it to Disney! Race day, Arlette, Jill and I head to the starting line, after being herded to the start line I am thinking WHAT did I get myself into…

We started off, I felt pretty good, keeping up with Mrs. Goofy Arlette, I think we were doing a 2:1 ration or maybe it was 1:1, heck I can’t remember! Anyhos, we lost Jill in the first mile  (sad face)!!! I stayed with Mrs Goofy until abt mile 7 when she put here head phones in and did her little dance…I could see her up until 8, then I lost her….At Mile 9 I hit rock bottom…I made a call back home to my BFF, Well I had forgot to tell her I was running a half so she was shocked, but she of course made a big deal, after she cheered me up, off I went…The rest I remember thinking only 3 more miles, only 2 more miles, and then the legs just WOULD NOT work to run…I decided as long as the work to walk, I’m good…I was still worried abt getting swept until I turned towards Epcot, but I found out later that they don’t get you after mile 11ish or was that 12…Entering Epcot I ran into Linda (carswell) and I stayed with her up until Mile 13 and then I decided I would run that last, IF my legs allowed it…I crossed the finish line and kept waiting for the tears of joy, they never came (I bet I sweated them out) Anywhos I was great until I finally saw Arlette, which I would have NEVER finished this race without her. I will never forget that look on her face. That moment will stick withme! I knew going in I had to stay with her until the half way point if I wanted to finish the race. Well I finished, sore and miserable, but my fault for not training….But it stuck in the back of my head that I stayed with Mrs Goofy Arlette until mile 7, what could I do if I actually trained…And then it was okay I did the ½ like I knew I could…What abt the full…Then I decided my mind was wacked out of it from the run!! 

Fast Forward to May 18, 2012…I finally see the post on facebook abt the new Marathon Course…And wow it does look great…Something abt every 5-6 Miles…Then it was, Am I losing it, do I really want to run that far? CRAZY….Later that night, when I couldn’t sleep I started reseaching…I am 36, over weight and NOT happy with myself, time to do something abt that…And what better way to start training for a FULL FREAKING MARATHON…I made the fateful text to Arlette, I’m in…Whats next??  Oh and did I mention I HATE to run….Joy for me!!

So starting tommorow I start my Runs, 30min of running with 30sec walk 30sec Run, following the Jeff Galloway training paln… My goal for the marathon is a 12-13 mile, which means  running 2min and walking 1. Should be doable!

Oh and then I talked to Wendi this morning, shes excited that I am board but then mentions I really should find a "pratice marathon in the fall to run! ;0(   Maybe the Wichita half marathon in October!

Stay tuned!

Family Vacation 2009

Disney 2008 Scrapbook

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Grandma

After our hectic weekend with the grandparents, I decided to post a page that I worked up about Grandma & how glad we were that she was able to go on vacation with us! Here it is!

My lovely mother & father took Kiersten Saturday to pick up some auto parts abt 3hrs away, I had talked to them late Saturday night and they had picked everything up, but her cell phone was dead and hes was working on going dead! Well Sunday morning when I got up I called out to the farm and my older brother answers, nope not home yet!! After some stress, I called our local Sheriff Dept and had them put out a search for em, WALL LA - mom called at abt 10am, laughing the Trooper that found them knew me from my High School days, so he thought it was pretty entertaining!! Thank goodness it all ended well!

Hope the rest of the week stays nice and quite!

Polly

Another week another page!

This one is copied big time from Brittney & Britt-ish Designs, check out her website, its listed in my favorites! Hers looks so much better, don't know how she does all that!

New Pages

Well I have finally put together a couple more of Pages from our Vacation!




















We had such a blast at Epcot's World Showcase's Germany! The amount of details that Disney puts into everything is just amazing. We loved it!

Up Next, Wishes Fireworks page, After having Dinner in the castle that night we watched Wishes from the Rose Garden off to the side of the Castle! What a night!





















Hubby and I just got back from a night away from home in a Bed and Breakfast & a visit to the spa! If your ever in Hays, Kansas. Make sure to check out the Rock Haven Spa!

Gymnastics Meet

Well we attended our first gymnastics meet of the season this weekend and Kiersten did wonderful! I am attempting to post the video we took. First up is Kiersten's floor routine, at the end is the round off back handspring in which she has worked for over a year. This meet was the first time I have seen her connect them so well! We were shocked!

Next Up is her bar routine. Honestly it was not the best I have seen her do, but it earned her a 9.05 and in her age group (11a) it earned her a 1st place (out of 10)! You should have seen the look on her face when her name was called for 1st place. With her Vault score & Beam she ended up in 4th place overall!

O' Christmas Tree, O' Christmas Tree???

Our Christmas tree is "naked" so far this year for a couple of reason, two main reasons are....

I was afraid he was gonna knock the tree over trying to pluck the ornaments off so I took everything off! Good thing I did!

It seems that my tree has grown some fur! I was hoping to add popcorn strings this weekend, we'll see!!

In just ONE hour?

This little guy keeps me hopping in the morning, who would think with in ONE hour he can accomplish all this:

1.Push trash can over and spill goodies ALL OVER

2.Find sewing machine attachments up inside the machine (from Underneath).Open box and SHAKE EM everywhere...then the no fight, pretty sure he told me NO, at least he swatted at my hand when I stopped him from going after them for the 3rd time!

4.Pull out dinning room chair, crawl up ontop of table, dump small bucket of itty bitty legos all over table and floor!

5. Grabbed end of Toilet paper roll and took off running...Stopped him at bathroom door!

6. Grabbed and ran off with makeup as I am trying to put it on!

7. Tried to chug brothers left over koolaide, after dressed in CLEAN clothes!

Keep in mind that durning this whole time I am trying to get myself dress and other son up and ready. So uh I was only 15min late to work today, already exhausted!

Almost forgot....He cleaned out my purse too, ran around giggling and wadding up papers!

Happy Belated Thanksgiving!

We'll our Thanksgiving weekend was a busy one! Lots of fun, but exhausted!


I couldn't wait to scrap up this page of Russ...I love it!!

Everything from Britt-ish Designs, Thanks Indeed!

Mount Everest & the Yeti!

MORE????

Here are some more pages!! Thanks for looking!


Email me for Credits - pollyb at agency.kscoxmail.com

Well another page done! Most of this from Britt's Leave the World Behind

Okay I finshed up some more pages!

2 Down, Tons more to go!

Drum Roll Please..........................

Well I finally finished my first two digital scrapbook pages.

Not perfect, but its a start! Let me know what you think!
Polly

One of those Memories

Well I don't have any pics to show off, camera battery was charging, but I do have a special moment to share. Last night we celebrated Vance's birthday, just the kids and I and a simple cake, but when it came time to blow out the candles we brought the cake to Vance's chair and of course August crawled up on his lap and we sang and then Russ & Vance blew out the candles, only for one to come back on (it was a trick) August's eyes lite up and the fun started. Before it was all over August was trying his hardest to blow, he would push his lips together and you could hear the air, but no luck! One of those memories that will stick in my head. The eyes all lit up!

Polly

Back from Vacation!!

I know its been a LONG TIME since I did that first post! I finally have some time! For the past couple of months, along with work and running a household I have been planning our first family vacation to DISNEY WORLD! It was a blast!! It actually was a DREAM, we had made arrangments to stay in the value resorts, but last minute we were upgraded for FREE to the 1 Bedroom Villa apartments at Disney's Saratoga Springs Resort! The plan was for Vance, Kiersten, Russ and I to go, but when the upgrade happened I called added my mom and August for just there park tickets ONLY, no charge for the room, plus we got a 2bedroom villa for no extra charge. HOW AWESOME WAS THAT?? We celebrated Kiersten's 11th birthday while there..Heres some pics!

Kiersten watching Wishes at Magical Kingdom on her 11th Birthday!

Vance, Russ, Kiersten, My mom and August on our first trip to Magical Kingdom!

And I think you know who this is, Russ was so excited and Kiersten, well she thought he was cute even tho he wore makeup! Peter Pan told Russ that if he wanted to be a Pirate with Capt Hook he would have to get a tatoo and not be able to choose where it would go and what it would be! Told Russ the last guy he saw had a tatoo of a TOILET in the middle of his chest!

I will try to keep up on the blog now! Just another excuss huh!

1st Post

Well this is my official FIRST post!! I will try to keep up, but with the kids and working you will never know! So far we have had a BUSY summer, all kinds of things happening! I posted a couple of Pics below!

This was taken over Memorial Weekend. My Father In Law, Dean, took the kids and I out to Fort Larned to watch some living history..The kids had a lot of fun!

This is a pic of the older kids posing in the "time out box" as I call it..It sure wasn't very big, guessing those soliders learned a lesson real quick!