Weekly Review May 22-28

Another week in the books! Here's what happened in Fitness, Farm, and Life.

Fitness
I started the week off with a race-- the North Star Color Run! You can read the full review HERE. It was a good week overall as I fit in a lot of quality running and even a bike ride!

Sunday-3 mile run at North Star Color Run!

I think the photographer of this image was Rob Spicher.
I got it from the North Star Color Run Facebook Page.

Monday- 3.7 mile run at track practice
Tuesday- 9 mile bike ride
Wednesday- rest
Thursday- 6.3 mile run before catching bus to head to State Track

Post-run kisses from Harvey!

Friday- rest
Saturday- 3 mile treadmill run at hotel.

Year to Date through May 28:

Running: 234.05 miles <--- I ran 17 miles last week. A new weekly high total!
Walking/Hiking: 67.2 miles 
Yoga: 980 min 
CC-Ski: 500 min / 14.1 miles *Done for the season
Alpine Ski: 3 days *Done for the season
Mountain bike: 47 miles

Jeff and I are both signed up for the 10K at Governor's Cup, coming up in less than two weeks. We ran this race last year, too. I like that it is becoming a tradition for us. We also plan to run the Dawson's Run 5K, which is a local race in Joplin, on June 18.

Farm
As the ground continued to desaturate, Jeff was able to work on spraying and getting some things done in our fields. Our crops have emerged from the soil and are now hankering for some warm sun.


Also, my Aunt Jean sent me this --

Appropriate, after last week when I caught a metal gate with my face while we were working cows. I wrote a bit about that in my previous Weekly Review post.  I'm sure I've broken more than one of those commandments.

Life
Track season officially came to an end over the weekend as we attended State in Missoula. We had eleven athletes from our team that qualified. They competed well and represented our school very well. This year, Class C was combined with Class AA at State and we enjoyed watching some very excellent performances from boys and girls from both classes at State. There were many Class and even All-Class records broken as the best athletes in Montana competed against one another. Commendable performances up and down the board.

A major highlight for me was watching Christina Aragon race. She was outstanding. I may never in my life witness another athlete as skilled at running as she is. She won all three distance races (800, 1600, 3200) commandingly. She is the fastest Prep runner in the nation in the 800 and is likely to be racing at the Olympic Trials later this summer in Eugene. She finished in 2:05 and change. The Olympic Standard is 2:03 and she's definitely chasing.

I took this photo at the start of the AA Girls 1600 race. That's Aragon on the right in the white jersey. 

Another track-related highlight from last week was our Track and Field day at the Elementary. We have an afternoon of track and field activities for our Elementary kids where they get to try a wide variety of events, suited to their age and ability. I was in charge of hurdles, and the sprint races. Then, we held an All-School Relay, where our entire Elementary enrollment spread out along the track and passed the baton, starting with Kindergarten and ending with Sixth Grade. I took a video:

All in all, it was a really great week! School is out for me for the summer, and I'm looking forward to getting a lot done at home, helping with farm stuff, and tackling my Triathlon training!