Bike Tour and Amazing Bodies

On Saturday my brother Jeff, BF Laura and I rode in the Salt Lake City Bike tour. It is a fun little route that is almost exact to the marathon route that is run later that morning. It was my first bike "race" if you can really call it that, and I totally loved it. I only almost died once. Some lady took a turn extra wide and almost ran me off the rode. I totally said "whoa there" like she was some kind of animal or something. LOL! I have to not think about what may have happened had I actually fallen. Considering I am attached to the bike with my shoes...otherwise I start to get SCUBA panic mode! haha

Jeff, Me, Lo, Dana and ?? Oh can't remember his name (my bro's work friends)

 You can only tell a little in the pics but they totally gave me the wrong medal. Pretty cool if I had done the marathon but not so much. Luckily my fellow bikers noticed and I traded. :)

We finished about 7:30 and hung out for a bit. Then we thought it would be fun to ride our bikes from the Delta Center where the race ended back up to the U where our car was parked. Now that was the hard part! It was a nice uphill workout. My brother and I stayed to see my sister Lynae and sister in law Kirstie (his wife) finish the half marathon. I get so emotional in things like that. I was totally crying listening to all the people yelling and encouraging the racers. You just never know what people have been through to do that. Through my choked up voice I yelled for my sisters as the ran the home stretch! I am so proud of my sis. She worked hard and accomplished her goal! Way to go Nae!

I missed a pic of nae during my emotional yelling ;)

Not intentionally at first, but we ended up staying until my brother finished. Ky had been training one of his friends and it was really cool to watch Jaron cross and finish. Ky is such an awesome friend. He has spent many hours working with his buddy. All the people who ran around them said he was their motivation. :) Isn't it just fun that me and ALL my siblings participated in some aspect of this event? I thought it was!

Now I had to post about how amazing bodies are. We saw the full marathon finisher finish right before my sis's. It was so awesome. It is just crazy people can do that and especially that fast. Definitely something on my bucket list. Just not quite so fast! :)

back: Lynae, Jeff, Kirstie, Dan and Jaron

front: Me, Ky and Wally 

(Dan and Wally are Ky's friends)

The other reason I have been thinking about how amazing bodies are, is because I have been watching mine heal all day. This morning I fell while running. Yes you heard me right, not off my bike but running. HAHA (how embarrassing) I was running on some gravel and was apparently looking up for my upcoming turn when my foot got caught on some sort of wire (I will be investigating) it totally caught tight on my foot with no give and tripped me. I think I was probably horizontal in the air before landing. My first thought was "Did I really just fall?" as I hurried up and continued running. 

It beat my hands up pretty bad and they were bleeding intensely the whole way home. When I got home they had all sorts of dirt and rocks in them. I also scrapped up my knee, hip and elbow. I am just shocked watching over the day how my hands are already healing. They hurt so bad (mostly cause it is near impossible not to use them.) In some places the skin has already closed, scabs are forming and healing is taking place. Our bodies are just really amazing. (funny that this small thing made me think of this. I mean, hello I've had 3 c-sections, lol)

Anyway I am just grateful to have my body. I am happy to keep it healthy through exercising. I am glad my body functions properly. It is something I just never really thought much about before seeing my own son's not. I feel like it is my duty to him to keep my body healthy and take good care of it. :)