we visited "salvation mountain" which is located in niland socal east of the salton sea (another can of warms - might blog about it later). this beautiful master piece was created by Leonard Knight, who recently passed in february 2014, may his soul rest in peace. the creation of this beautiful, adobe clay mountain is nothing short of amazing. if ever in socal it's a neat place to visit.
"salvation mountain is Leonard's tribute to God and his gift to the world with its simple yet powerful message: 'God Is Love.'"
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| on our way back from one of his far-away jobs |
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| we sent out our invites!! |
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| we hit the double digits!!! |
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| the derby - cliforniachrome |
yesterday we ran the oc half marathon: my 3rd half and his 6th. quite the experience - j is so amazing he stayed with me the entire race even though he could've clearly just left me behind and possibly set a PR for himself, since i wasn't being the nicest after mile 7- he's amazing and so selfless. we had originally signed up for the full to kick us both back into fit gear, however, that still only gave us about 3 months of training -i've never ran a full (he has) but i know that's not enough time to train for a full. ha so we decided to just do the half after a month of signing up...we still didn't train. at least not as much as we should've. even though i think it's amazing that our bodies can run 13.1 miles (well 13.24 to be exact) without training but it's really not smart at all.
after mile 6 or 7 i remember telling j "i'm struggling" not sure if it was the fact that we were running ahead of our "goal" pace for the first 6 miles, lack of training, or the heat; i'll blame all three. j was so supportive and encouraging the entire race it was really amazing to have him run by my side and it pushed me to run faster but at the same time i just wasn't happy about how i was feeling halfway through. at about mile 10 -j says to me "can you speed it up a bit?" i looked at him -with i'm sure a look of "go to hell" and simply shook my head "no" 5 minutes go by and we see a man laying on the side of the road, cpr was being performed on him and he wasn't responding. what a terrible site to see while running and all i could do was pray for the man. i truly hope & pray he is recovering at home now. j said the last mile we have to really speed it up in order to run it under 2hrs. there were 7 min left on my watch til we hit the 2hr mark and we had just started running mile 12 -lets just say i picked it up a bit finishing 13.24 miles in 2 hrs 4 mins. - tech 2 hrs 2 min (the course markers were off..how does that happen?)
i thought the course was legit - but the lack of training and the heat got the best of me. no PR for either one of us. but it was a good experience to run with him, he usually smokes me, he's so good! :) we will definitely train for the next one, maybe even train for a marathon. that's on my bucket list before i'm 30.
after mile 6 or 7 i remember telling j "i'm struggling" not sure if it was the fact that we were running ahead of our "goal" pace for the first 6 miles, lack of training, or the heat; i'll blame all three. j was so supportive and encouraging the entire race it was really amazing to have him run by my side and it pushed me to run faster but at the same time i just wasn't happy about how i was feeling halfway through. at about mile 10 -j says to me "can you speed it up a bit?" i looked at him -with i'm sure a look of "go to hell" and simply shook my head "no" 5 minutes go by and we see a man laying on the side of the road, cpr was being performed on him and he wasn't responding. what a terrible site to see while running and all i could do was pray for the man. i truly hope & pray he is recovering at home now. j said the last mile we have to really speed it up in order to run it under 2hrs. there were 7 min left on my watch til we hit the 2hr mark and we had just started running mile 12 -lets just say i picked it up a bit finishing 13.24 miles in 2 hrs 4 mins. - tech 2 hrs 2 min (the course markers were off..how does that happen?)
i thought the course was legit - but the lack of training and the heat got the best of me. no PR for either one of us. but it was a good experience to run with him, he usually smokes me, he's so good! :) we will definitely train for the next one, maybe even train for a marathon. that's on my bucket list before i'm 30.
i will quote some of the funniest comments j made which at the time i didn't think were funny but looking back if i wasn't so focused on trying to keep every bit of energy inside of me i would've stopped & laughed so hard at every single one of these:
"alright we are at 7000 steps (looking at his step counter)"
"babe this is the last half you'll do until i get you pregnant!"
"alright babe, only 33 min left to go"
"this is perfect timing for a beer or coffee" at like mile 10 lol
"do you think you can speed it up a bit?"
"alright last mile we have to really speed it up"
"follow to the left of me and i'll get you to the finish line under 2"
"i love you babe"
"good job babe"
"you are doing so good baby"
"farts,farts,farts"
haha he was sooo cute and im sad i couldn't laugh with him for some of these but we laughed last night. we rode bikes to brunch, had a drink, & then came back home to relax for the rest of the day. 14 hrs of sleep never felt better. thank the lord for epson salt.
so all of this happened in just 4 days & that is all folks! :) crazy.fun.stuff with deeschaefylife.
Happy Cinco de drinko!
Happy Cinco de drinko!
