June and July--2019
After my ill-fated ski accident in March and the ensuing ankle and foot problems, I was doubtful that I'd be able to run the marathon that Casey and I had signed up for back in January--the Huntsville Marathon, happening in September. I'd given myself a cut-off day (the end of May) and if I couldn't run a mile without pain by then, I'd give my race registration away. Alas, at the very end of May, I could finally run a bit without my foot and ankle doing weird things, so I started to ramp up my mileage week by week. Last week we peaked at 23 miles and Casey and I are on track to actually do this. I did lose a toenail to a half-marathon run down Big Cottonwood Canyon at the end of July, but other than that the training has been going fairly well. This has been such a dry, hot summer, that when this rain came, the kids were out soaking themselves bodily. Making pavement shadows. Doug, Ilean, and Angie took the younger boy cousins to tour the Bingham Copper M...