A place to read about my Adventures with My Sweet Wife, "My Three Son's" and my Mountian Running Adventures.
About Me
- mountainrunnermike
- I am a Husband to my beautiful sweet wife Vickie, and a Father to "My Three Sons" Cotton, Tristan, and Justus. One of my greatest strengths is running long distances. I am not fast, but I can go forever. My favorite surfaces are high incline altitudes loaded with rocks, ruts, scree. I have completed 7 Squaw Peak 50 miler ultramarathons, 2 Wasatch 100 ultramarathons, 1 Katcina Mosa 100k, one Ten Peaks Utah ultra of 32 miles and one Bonneville Shoreline Trail Marathon, and countless 8 hour training runs through the Wasatch Mountains. I did one road marathon and swore to never do one again. If it is not on dirt I don't touch it. I prefer snowshoeing in the winter for conditioning and will post some great pictures of the Wasatch mountains covered in snow this winter.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Happy Anniversary
The family spent the day a the rugby pitch. It was as well as my Tristan's first official Rugby match it was my 18th wedding anniversary to my sweet wife.
A little history.
When I met Vickie I was playing rugby for a club called United Rugby. The first game Vickie came and saw with her friend Carol Lee I got knocked out by a hit tot he jaw as I went up to catch a kick. They drug me off the field, pulled my jersey off and gave to another player. I was still unconscious. To this day I do not know why she has stayed with me I am glad she has.
Rugby runs in our blood and I am so glad to see that my boys have the love for the game.
Fitting that we spent our 18 wedding anniversary at the "Rugby Pitch".
Tristan played his first official game and really surprised his old Pap. I did not know if Tristan had the intensity to play a game such as Rugby, but he fell in love with it. He played hooker for the entire game. Which if you follow Rugby, is the toughest position. The Hooker plays in the scrum with the forwards. He is usually a bit smaller but also the meanest as he goes against the biggest guys in the game.
Tristan made me proud.
Cotton played great as well. Cotton loves to come into a ruck and knock the other team off the ball, which allows his team to have possession of the ball. He is also a great runner with the ball. He likes to punish anyone that is willing to try and tackle him.
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