Back on the trail

I went up onto Jacobs Ladder today up towards Lone Peak. One more step to finding my way up to the top. I will keep pushing a little further each time until I can maked it a round trip. Some guy said that he though it was 6 miles up. That is not bad, but a lot of branches of trail. I will keep going until I find the right route that is good for climbing and running.

Here are a few pictures.

Moby Dick

I get Kidney Stones. Painful. Yet love to drink Diet coke, eat cashews, and run long distances. None of the above help out. Latley about every three to four months I get one of these barbed looking thing that want to pass into my bladder.

I have passed a kidney stone on the top of Lighting Ridge, I have passed a kidney stone on vacation driving to Disney land, in a meeting at work, most of these times without any pain killers.

Sometimes I take a good painkiller and watch a good long movie like Lord of the Rings, Drink a lot of water and flush the "DEVIL" out.

This time I woke up at 2:00am with some severe back pain. I took a painkiller and 44 ounces of water and the pain would not go away. After 1-1/2 hours more I took another. Still the pain was great. At 7:00am I asked my 16 year old son to take me to the hospital. After a liter of morphine I could finally lay still.

They took xrays and wanted to see how big it was. Just before they came to tell me I used the bathroom and shot the sucker out into the catch basin. Because of the size of it, the doctor or nurses did not believe me that I had passed it. The doctor rushed to get a ruler to measure it and it turned out to be 7 millimeters. They still could not beleive that I passed it. He said that most of the general public cannot pass anything bigger than 5 millimeters.

Here is a picture of Moby Dick!!!

I am officially SOFT

Left this morning with a slight northerly wind. A few dark clouds. 15 minutes into the run I was just warming up and was hit by hail. In the old days this looked like fun. But I turned around without any seconed guessing and ran to the car. So only 25 minutes.

Im old,.....soft,.... or LAZY!!!
MF

Mill Mountain

Went to go up Timp today. The parking lot was full and they would not let me in. So I drove to the Cascade Springs road and hit the ridge trail all the way up to Rock Springs.

Here are a few photos.

After because I love my gal I changed the oil in her car and weeded the vegetable garden.

MRM

Clarks Trail

Vickie, Tristan, and Justus went to Phoenix for cousin Cody's wedding. I wish I could be there but work had to be done. When work was finished and after a 10-1/2 hour day I hit Clarks trail for a quick hour run. I have fallen in love with this run. Lots of shade and a great loop. I do not know how many miles but I can run the entire way and have a blast running down.

I am trying to get on a good schedule for runnning, but there is som much to do. I am going to pace Jeff Holdaway on the Wasatch 100 this September 11th. Should be fun and it will be great to be on the trails again.

Here is a photo from the top of Clarks trail and the bottom of Jacobs ladder trail. Which is going to be one of my next accomplishments. Jacobs ladder up onto Lone Peak.

You can see the smoke from the south of us and the dust from the wind storms.

Cotton Plays Before the Eagles

Cotton was asked to play for the U17 Utah Rugby All Stars. It is a tournament put on by the U.S. Eagles to see the up and coming talent in the country. There were many eagle scouts present. They did pretty good but Cotton had a great experience.

Family Rugby Day

Yesterday was Family day. All the boys got to play. Pictures of the boys playing. Justus was in his first game. You can see him in the blue scrum cap.

I got to play on the alumni game. To much fun. But I am sore today.

Cotton was called and asked to play with an U17 all star team from Utah. He plays in San Fransisco this next weekend in front of U.S. Eagle Scouts. He also gets to see the Eagles play Ireland.

Proud of my boys.

Easter and Rugby

My sweetie got these rugby team hats for easter and used them as baskets. How nice....

We love the rugby hats. First person up got first choice.

Also Cotton had a game against Highland yesterday. They did great but lost 3 tries to one.

Hope you like the photos.

Again, Cotton wears the blue scrum cap.

Untied Rugby Scrimmage

Here are some pictures of my boys in the scrimmage today. I was so proud of them. Tristan took a good shot to the nose, and kept playing hard. He ran the ball a few times. He gets better with each game.

Cotton did great as usual and was the next to Tristan on the front row. Even cleaned up the ruck a few times with his brother on the bottom.

Now thats protecting your brother.

Mount Timp

Check out this picture... love this mountain. I need to get some altitude. Where is SPRING!!!!!!