Anniversary and Wonder Woman

We had our 2nd Anniversary in August and we celebrated by having a couples massage in the morning and then we drove down to Salt Lake to do some shopping at the Gateway and go to dinner! It ended up being a really relaxing day but it was nice to have that!  I only got one picture of us at the Clark Planetarium.  We walked through that while we waited for dinner time!

In September, I completed my first road bike race!! My friend Kylee and I went down to Payson for the Wonder Woman ride and we never thought our day would turn out like it did but it was well worth it.  We started the race about 9:30 (we were supposed to start at 8:30) or so and we didn't finish till 4:00.  We rode 60 miles and had a lot of fun and troubles along the way.  First off, we knew they would have aid stations every so many miles but somehow we missed the first one so we went about 30 miles before coming to a station.  We were really unprepared for that.  We had ate that morning around 6:30 or 7:00 and we didn't have anything till 1:00 and when you are on a bike that it WAY too long.  Let's just say we were running out of energy! All we saw was more and more road and no signs.  Luckily there was this nice man on the side of the road that was in his car, he had all his cycling gear on so we thought we would ask him if he knew where the next aid station was.  He said just about 5 miles and I think he could tell we were exhausted so he gave us some energy bars to get us to the station.  He really saved us!! 

When we got to the rest stop and "scarfed" our food.  We took a good 20 minutes there getting our energy back.  We got a picture with the Wonder Woman, hoping she could get us through the race.  We were already so behind but we were determined to finish.  Right after we had some lunch it started to downpour and let me tell you riding in the rain on a bike is no fun.  Then, the hail came and luckily there was a lady waiting for her friends and offered to let us sit in her car to wait for the storm to pass.  Turns out this was the wife of the guy that had helped us with the energy bars earlier.  We waited for about 25 -30 minutes in the car and then started on our way again.  We had to get a picture with these lifesavers of ours! There was no way we could have done it without them.  

The last half of our ride we were pushing ourselves! We wanted to give up, it was cold and we still had so far to go but we kept with it!! We had the volunteers checking up on us every so often and had some aid stations with milk, cookies, fruit, drinks, etc. to help us make it through. About 5 miles to the end, I got a flat tire but those volunteers changed my tire and we were back on our way.  And we finally finished!! Oh man, the feeling I got when I crossed the finish line was relief and accomplishment that I actually finished. It was a great day, I was sore and tired but I would definitely do it again! It was great!