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Interesting, it's been years, and I mean YEARS since my last post.  It's easy to get out of the habit.  From looking at my posts the last I really wrote about was the predictive run my husband put together for our family when my father in law turned 90.

My father in law passed away later that next year, in May.  What a blessing that we were able to be together as a family the September before.

In 2012, after running the Missoula Marathon in 2011, we decided to run the Portland OR marathon in October.  We went with some friends and had a wonderful time.

The race was not as easy as I thought it would be, quite hilly actually but it was a good race and I did pretty well.  Enjoyed the time with friends and of course Portland is an adventure all on it's own merit!

Unfortunately I had the same issue after this race that I had in Missoula where I threw up about half an hour after the race.  I have not yet figured out why this is happening.

So that was our 2012, of course we did all of the usual smaller races as well.

In 2013 we decided to do 13, 13's in 2013.  That is 13 half marathons in 2013.  That was a lot of fun but also pretty taxing on the body.  In addition I ran the Oklahoma City Marathon, and had a pretty tough time, I just wasn't into that race at all and had the same issue with getting sick about half an hour after the race.

Our plan was to do the Crazy Horse Half in October of 2013 but there was a huge snow storm and the race was canceled.  We were pretty bummed.

We did some races for our 13, but because of the expense we also ran half marathon courses but not during the race, as long as it was 13.1 we counted that as a race.  Here were our races/runs and no Terry would not allow me to use OKC as one of my runs as it was a full not a half!

1/13/2013 - Red River Train Half - Shreveport, LA
1//26/2013 - Lake Benbrook Half - Benbrook, TX
2/16/2013 - Moe's Worst Half  - San Marcos, TX
2/24/2013 - Cow Town Half - Fort Worth, TX (and the last of my 5 year commitment on this one)
3/30/2013 - Lt. Governors Cup - Coumbia, SC
5/25/2013 - Memorial Day Half Marathon - Granbury, Tx
7/28/2013 - The Half at the Links - Ruidoso, NM
8/24/2013 - Olympic Discover Trail Half - Port Angeles, WA
9/8/2013 - Rails to Trails Half - Garner, TX
9/22/2013 - Woodshed Half - Trinity Trails, Fort Worth, Tx
10/12/2013 - Reuel Little Classic - Madill, OK
10/27/2013 - Monster Dash Half Marathon - Fort Worth Tx.
12/25/2013 - Christmas Day Half - Granbury, Tx

2014 our family runners logged how many miles run in 2014 and we ended up running over 5000 miles as a family.  Tanner, our son, is a GIS guy so he mapped our runs and sent us this really cool map.  It was pretty interesting to see all of the places our family ran or rode bikes.

http://freewheelmaps.com/projects/runners/index.html

Terry and I also ran the Crazy Horse Half in South Dakota in October.  That was an epic race and it warrants it's own post, so stay tuned.

The current year 2015 has been uneventful.  We've run the typical races and done well and are now in the summer and it's in the 100's so we are struggling with the heat which we always do!  We've also been a part of working to start a running club here in Granbuary and are enjoying meeting new friends with a common goal.

From a running perspective you are now caught up!

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