Salt Lake City Half-Marathon

Last year my two sister-in-laws, Jen and Rachel, inspired me after they ran in a half-marathon. And although Rachel was able to run in it with little training (I know, she's amazing!), I knew that I would have to train for months to do something like that, if I even could! So for months, Marcus and I have been waking up at the crack of dawn, running countless miles, and have suffered many blisters, aches and pains. And a week ago, Marcus and I participated in the Salt Lake City Half-Marathon.

We started up at the University of Utah and made our way down to the Gateway Mall. It was hard, really hard, but we didn't walk once (which was our goal) and even finished with a decent time! We had such a fun time even running the race, because random people came out and cheered us along the whole way, street performers were there on corners, and the hundreds of people that volunteered at water stations were greatly appreciated! We were also so happy that Tara, her boys and Emiline, and Carolyn could all come down and support us in our race, and that Jen and Cory could come up to Salt Lake too! We had such a fun time with everyone, and seeing their smiling faces at the finish line was a great motivation to finish.

Here we are about to cross the finish line!

Right after the race, standing for a picture. We had to force our smiles in this one! We were hurting so bad and for the next 3 days we could hardly walk. However, this didn't stop us from walking to the food tables of ice cream, yogurts, and bananas! A banana had never tasted so good!

So not only did Marcus and I run in the half-marathon, but Tara, Carolyn, and Jen ran in the 5k and Luke in the 1k. It's a Henry thing, they sure are inspiring!

What an accomplishment this was for me. Months ago Marcus and I had set out to do this, and I'm not a runner by any means! Looking back now we worked so hard to reach our goal. I remember laughing about a mile and thinking I'd never be able to run it. Then it was two miles, three miles, then all of a sudden I was running 12 miles! I still am not a huge fan of running, but it just shows what we can do when we put our minds to something. I'm so proud of us and all we've accomplished. Thanks for being such a great partner through it all Marcus. So what do we do now? Well, we're training for another one for July 4th!

Nothing But Net

Has it really been a month since my last post!? Oh, the horror! Things have been pretty crazy here, but in a good way! We've had a lot of fun with friends and family these last few weeks as we've prepared for graduation. But mostly, we've been around basketball...lots and lots of basketball...I guess that's what you get for being married to a Henry. Luckily, I love me some basketball.

Exhibit A. This season Jen and I were on the same intramural basketball team at BYU. And Marcus and our friend Jimmy we're our coaches. We had SO much fun, and the girls we played with were awesome. So awesome it didn't even matter that we had a 1- and oh something, season. All throughout the season, a few of us got mistaken for sisters. Can you point out the look alikes?Exhibit B. Some of our friends, Josh and Ashley, had reduced tickets to a Jazz game. I love it when we go with girls to sporting events because it gives me someone to talk to, while Marcus swaps sports stats with the boys! The Jazz were playing the Knicks that night so we got to see Nate Robinson. He's only like 5 feet tall and won the slam dunk contest this year. Ridiculous! He gives hope to small people everywhere, including me.
Exhibit C. Our other friends Megan and Aaron got us tickets to the Utah Flash game. They're the D League basketball team here in Utah. They got us courtside seats! We thought it was pretty cool and Marcus favorite part, he got to meet Jerry Sloan, the coach for the Jazz. He was like a kid on Christmas morning! I think I would be willing to watch a lot more basketball if we could watch every game like that!
Exhibit D. Although I have no picture to prove it, I won our class March Madness basetkball bracket; thanks to my sport savy husband. I even beat out the five boys in our class! We filled out both women's and men's brackets and I came back with an awesome score in the women's to win the overall thing! It was a huge surprise when she announced my name. So, what'd I win? A free Bundt cake. Holla! So we've been eating that all week. I guess you really can have your cake and eat it too!