The Wiersma 6: 2011

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

25k

On May 14, Matt and I ran/walked 15.5 miles or 25k!

All went well and we finished...at times we weren't sure we would finish as I stopped running and started walking at the 9 mile mark. I have been having ongoing IT band issues and it again reared it's ugly head. I sent Matt on ahead because he didn't need to have as slow a time as I did. However, I caught back up to him at mile 11. Apparently he had run the mile after he left me quite quickly which caused his foot to hurt...in the end, he had a stress fracture. So...we walked miles 11 to 15 together and ran the last 1/2 mile to the finish line! It wasn't the way I wanted it to go, but I/we finished!!!!!!!

Here we are after we got back home...Renee (on the far left) is our next door neighbor and Kristen (in the grey) is a good friend! What is also pretty amazing is that about 10 people from our church also ran the 25k - Renee and Kristen being two of them!

So, will I do it again? Yep, I hope to do it again next year and run the whole thing therefore getting a better time:) This years time was 3 hours and 24 min....shouldn't be hard to beat:)

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Blizzard 2011

So...today they say we had "Blizzard 2011." We did have lots of snow and wind which led to many snow drifts and pretty much everything was closed...but was it really that bad? Who knows...we had a great time playing outside, shoveling, snow blowing and sledding!

The "shovel brigade" out to help...not sure how much they helped, but they did have a good time!

Getting ready to play!

Matt took to the snow with the snow blower! My dad had plowed a bit of the drift, but there was still lots left!

Because of all the snow...there was a great hill next to our neighbors driveway....Kendra loved sledding down it!

It was a VERY fun SNOW DAY!!!!

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Winter Fun!

We went skiing on Christmas eve. We had celebrated Christmas with my family Thursday evening so had all day Friday, Christmas eve, to ski! The kids all know how and although Gavin learned last year...he pretty much started over this year but by the end of the day was tearing up the slopes!

Lucas heading down the hill

Matt figured out he hadn't skiied since we went in April of 1996...before we were married! But, it came back without any trouble...had a great time!

Grandpa and Gavin...skiing buddies!

Then on a Sunday afternoon we packed up and headed for the ZCS hill for some sledding. The kids got sleds for Christmas and were excited to use them! The hill was busy and was had fun flying down it on the new sleds!