I had a birthday and now I'm 75 years old.

I don't have any pictures for this post, but it was funny enough I wanted to write about it anyway. Chris signed us up for the Sunrise Duathlon which we did this past weekend on the 24th of May. We had to run a 5k, bike 21 miles, and then run another 5k. The wind was so strong the bike leg was quite a challenge. During the event I could see that I was toward the front of the pack of girls so we waited for the awards ceremony to see if I had won anything. As they were announcing the categories they wanted to give a special award to the only female to finish the international length in the age 75 and above category. They announced from Mountain Green, Utah, Paige Bell! I was too embarrassed to get up and claim my award. I know I had a birthday the day before, but I didn't know I had become a 75 year old. Chris had mistakenly signed me up for the wrong category. We had a good laugh about it for a while. Chris did great with one of the most competitive categories and finishing 5th and I would have finished first in my 'real' category if I were signed up correctly. In all we had a fun and challenging time.

Chris' First Century!

Chris' first century ever and my first century of the year was the Salt Lake Century (Which actually turned out to be 105 miles).
We started at the Salk Lake fair grounds and went north to weber county, turned around and headed back, taking a substantial detour out to Antelope Island before returning to the fair grounds.


Chris rode with some doctors from work and a couple of other friends. They went crazy fast and finished in about 4 hrs and 30 minutes. I came in about twenty minutes behind him. Unfortunately Chris suffered a flat tire. However, the weather was great and the precut oranges tasted pretty good. These pictures are after we had finished and were just packing up to go home and take a nap.

Our New Deck!

Our new deck is the first step in the completion of our yard. The construction workers moved fast to get it done in one week, even with being rained out a few times. The yard guys should be coming in a couple of weeks. I will sure be glad when I have to start mowing the lawn.

Race for the Cure

Four years ago, on a whim, Jan and I decided to do the Race for a Cure 5k and have done if every year since. We don't have any close ties with a breast cancer victim, but we figure it's for a good cause and it helps to get people outside and acitve. This year the whole family showed up for the event. We all ran or walked at our own paces and met up at the end. There were 17,000 people that participated in the event to make for a good outcome.

Working on the House

We have just started the process of fixing up our yard so it is more than rocks, dirt and weeds. The first thing we are having done (notice, not doing ourselves) is getting a deck built. Here is one, really not so cool, picture so you can see the work in progress.

Our first half marathon

Chris and I decided that we wanted to try and do a half marathon. We had planned on doing it, but the training wasn''t coming along so well. We're thinking of publishing a 'How to do a half marathon with only 3 weeks of training' and that includes one week of taper. We did better than we expected finishing in 1 hour 48 minutes at an 8:19 pace. We decided to stop there for now, but we have big plans for next year.

Tyler Jeffery James Austin

This is the newest edition to the Austin family - though he's a few months old. Tyler was born on January 29th of this year. Tyler is Richards middle name, Jeffery comes from our cousin Jeff Brewer, and James is Alex''s middle name. Rich and Heather are wonderful parents. (I think they have one of every stroller available to buy, so if the number of strollers is an indiciation of good parents, they're really good). Tyler is easy to laugh and keeps us very entertained. He's so cute I almost want one of my own...almost.