I woke up Saturday morning at 7:00 a.m.--an hour before I actually needed to wake up. I couldn't fully fall back asleep because I was so excited: race day! Brett and I ran the Rex Lee 10k. The Rex Lee Run is held annually at BYU to raise money for cancer research. Rex Lee was a famous lawyer and president of BYU, who died of cancer. I haven't participated in an actual race since my 1/2 marathon in July so I was psyched. I've been working on getting a little faster than I was last year and was anxious to see how my work had paid off. I ran the 6.2 miles in 49 minutes 27 seconds. That calculates to about 7:59 minute miles! Under 8!!!! I had never done that before, so as you can imagine I am very pleased. It feels so good to reach another goal. I finished 26th out of 156 in my age group and 176th out of about 500 overall. Brett did it about 4 minutes faster than me and finished 107th overall.
I also attended my first BYU baseball game....EVER this Saturday. Brett is a huge baseball fan so I'm trying to learn more about it. I really enjoyed the game more than I expected to. It was actually HOT outside and we got a little bit of sun. People were asking Brett all day yesterday if he went skiing because his sunburn kind of looks like he was wearing goggles. BYU's baseball team beat the University of Utah 11-3. It was sweet.
Then we went to a birthday party for one of Brett's friends from Indiana and ate some of his cake that his wife made to look like Mater from Pixar (Tow-mater?). It looked really great, and tasted great too!
Finally we headed to Jenny's to celebrate Pi day!! Did you know yesterday was Pi daY ? 3.14 (March 14th). We ate banana cream pie, pumpkin, apple, cherry, and rocky road pies, and had conversations about math and random trivia about pie. Do you know the first civilization who used an approximation of pi? Do you know which book contains the earliest approximation of pi? Well I do. We even sang a Pi song to the tune of Oh Cristmas Tree, and Jenny had pi rounded off to like 50 decimal places on construction paper all the way around her living room.
What a great saturday! These are just some pictures I've taken in the last few weeks.
Gettin a sun tan at the baseball game.
My nephew Reid making a silly face.
My nephew Porter smiling big for the camera.
6 comments:
Is that Brett in that picture? I hardly recognized him. He looks so different than the last photo I saw of him. Ha ha ha! I am so funny,
Joe
yeah I put that one up just for you joe :)
AWESOME TIME!! Holy Cow Abby, remind me never to run a race with you again. It might be too humiliating:) Great job! I am for sure going to start celebrating Pi day!! I LOVE that idea!! Too bad I have to wait a whole year!!!
Brett's feet look gross.
Hannah, that's just rude! That's just a bad picture of them, we'll take a better one another day.
Yeah, you work on that Brett. I'm not sure you can do much for those feet unless you can make them gain 5 pounds or so. Can you say BoneY!?
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