Runs in the Family

Summer

"I assume you are a big runner, too?"
"Well, I didn't used to be but then I just started running and last year I ran 500 miles. Next month I am going to run my first half marathon! Krista made me the training plan"

"This boy in my ward was just like, 'hey, we should go running!' and I was like, 'Yeah, sure! Let's go!' and then next thing I knew there were five boys that wanted to go running with me so we all started running and we barely got down the road and one of the boys was already tired and he tried to pull a move like that boy you ran up the Y with. Hahaha he was like, 'Maybe we should stop at this light for the crosswalk' I felt like such a champ with all those ninny boys!"

"I was just on this runner's high and I felt like I could keep going forever! I was so happy and joyous! My legs weren't even that tired the next day! I just beasted out 10 miles!"

"I knew I couldn't do it in less than 2 hours, but I knew I could be really close, so I just started sprinting like a crazy! That was so fun!"

"Kris, I am always so proud of you when I see you crossing these finish lines. I almost always cry"

I thought that was silly until I saw her sprinting down the straightway after 13 miles. My tight throat had nothing to do with how cold it was that morning.

CJ

"You look great, Seeg! You look like a teenager!"
"Well, it's track season now and so I just started running a few miles everyday on the treadmill after practice. I'm getting faster"

"And there I was, just running down to the finish line, a frumpy mother of 2, but a running frumpy mother of 2!"

"We won! Eric won and I won and we both just did a triathlon! We didn't get to train very much, but it was so fun!"

"I just thought, I am turning 29, and if Krista can go out and run 26 8:00 miles, I can certainly do one in under 8. So i went and I ran and guess what I ran it in, Kris!? 7:40!!! I am going to run a 7:30 soon!"

I actually run many of those 26 miles slower than 8:00. But now I want to do more 7:30's soon.


Jamie

"What do you do when you don't win a sprint race, Jame?"
"I don't know. I always win!"

"I tried to take Doug out running, but he was so excited that we were going and that it was raining that he just sprinted up the hill! I could hardly keep up!"

"I can't really run anymore cus of my back. But me and LaDon go out and I have this awesome stroller now. He runs ahead and I'm building up."

"Kris, I ran a whole mile today!"

At the half marathon I ran in October I didn't feel very good with one mile to go. But something pushed back and I knew for sure I could run that whole mile.


Charina

"You just can't run with me, Kris. You run too fast. I just chug along."

"Yeah, I go running sometimes. But just for a little bit. I usually run up to the parking lot at the Y and then back down. It's just so hard with my little lungs!"

"I just wanted to reminisce on all my good BYU times so I just went and ran all around campus and up by the Marriott Center and it was just so good. I was just running around all the good places where I have such good memories."

"I think I am going to do a half marathon, Kris. Is that a crazy idea?"

"It felt so good, Kris! I just ran for seven miles with this lady who was just talking to me but then she was going too slow and I felt so good so I just picked it up and ran my little booty on down and just finished! I ran a 2:07! Not bad, eh?"

Not bad, Char. Not bad at all!


Mom

"Mom, you walk so fast!"
"I got things to do. I don't really run, so I gotta walk fast!"

"I'm going to start doing the Neilsen Challenge every month. I just hope I won't be last"

"My goal is always just to get to the halfway point by the time the crazy winner guy gets there. I think they are starting to recognize me with my yellow sweater."

"I PRed, Kris! I had a huge PR in the Neilsen this month! I will post a blog about it, but Dad did it with me too!"

"They ruined my surprise for you becuase they changed it to be a 5k, but I was going to run the 10k next month! A 10k! Now I can't find a single one in Colorado until January."

My mom is really good at finding things, and who knew one of those things for which she sought would ever be a running race of longer than 3 miles!

Dad

"Just think of a good strategy and break it down into chunks. Don't think of it like, 'Ok, I'm about to go run 26 miles,' just think, 'Ok, I just did one mile of warm up, now I'm going to do 2 miles of pace setting, and then I will start on my 7 mile jaunt.....'"

"Hello, Krista, this is your father, how you are you, hope you're doing grreat! Just calling to tell you to remember in the Boston Marathon to start out slllloooowww, so slow, like maybe even for the first 6 or 7 miles just run slow"

"Slow down, you knucklehead!!!"

"And when you think of these things- G, Goals, R, Reaffirmations, E, Every Race Routine, A, Actions, T, Times and Seasons/Thoughts, remember, you can be GREAT"

"YOU CAN WIN IT!"