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Memorial Day Weekend Camping

It is almost time for our annual Memorial Day Weekend Camping Adventure. This will be the third year of our camping adventure. We started in 2006 with just the good-ol' Canvas tent by Hillary, a tent that is actually older than I am. Which in and of itself says something about the quality.

Last year just one day before we left for our camping we picked up our first camper, a 1997 Starcraft pop-up, which I must say is in great shape... Fast forward to this year, and uh-oh we had so much fun camping last year that oops we did it again, we upgraded to yet a bigger camper. Now we have a 27 foot long Travel Trailer. Yes it is really 27' long. And it is just about perfect for our family.

This year our Camping Season Kickoff is starting with a bang! I have been planning for not just us, but 7 families in total. It has been a bit hectic, but a ton of fun to plan. There will be 16 adults and 19 kids! We are going to have a fishing tournament, and activities and so much fun! I can't wait!

I had so much fun as a kid growing up camping, and I just love being able to share that same love with my kids! We will be taking a lot of photos, and I will share the ones that I can with you all!

Look for another update soon!

-matt-

Official Results...

Here they For what it is worth:

Distance	HALF MAR
Clock Time	2:17:15
Chip Time	2:10:05
Overall Place	11559 / 30067
Gender Place	7772 / 14319
Division Place	1253 / 2084
Age Grade	45.5%
Sextotal	14319
Divtotal	2084
Pace	9:56
Mile 5	49:37
Mile 10	1:40:33

Mini-Marathon Update... Finished and PR

So another Mini-marathon has come and gone. As I said before I was a bit disappointed with my training. It had really fallen off since the Full in March. Seems life got in the way.

Anyway, as it turned out Steve and I ran about a perfect consistent 10:00 - 10:20 min/mile. As you may recall my goal was to do it in 2:14:59...

As we came up on mile 11.5ish.. :) I was feeling pretty good. At mile 12, the clock time was 2:06 and change. I had to basically do the next 1.1 mile in under 10 minutes to make a 2:10 time. I felt like I could do that so I started to increase the pace.

At some point in there I started to feel a little ahead of myself and I decided to take a quick walk at about 3/4 mile to go and then again a 1/2mile to go.

I crossed the finish line and was excited... and saw I had missed the 2:10 mark by about 30 seconds...

So we went to the results tent to get the official results....

Here they are: My New Personal Record!
2:10:05 seconds!
9:56 min/mile
YES I MISSED THE 2:10:00 by 5 seconds! but i still broke the 10min/mile mark.

I am looking at doing the Giest Half on the 17th... we shall see
-me-