Well, Last weekend I had a week off of racing so, we decided to go to the temple. It was a pretty drive down because the trees have still retained their color for the most part. When we got into the room I saw Scott talking with another guy like he knew him. Well, when I got out the same guy was sitting in the waiting area and he asked if I was Scott's wife. Well, he ended up being the only other LDS person that Scott knows works at Nielsen and his wife. We invited them to watch the BYU game with us but they had to get back to their kids. We have the tradition of going and getting a DQ blizzard after a session so we got a pumpkin pie flavored one. We had 3 other guys in the ward over to watch the game with us. That doesn't need to be talked about... this last week of school has been crazy just like all the others, but I had a midterm in the class that is actually really hard and in Stats. I ended up getting a 100 on the stats and I'll get the other test back next week because it was a 6 essay exam.
I left on Friday morning to go to Kenosha Wisconsin for Conference. The ride up was pretty uneventfull other than we all talked and I didn't get any thing done on this 8 hour trip except 67 stats question on my computer which I lost Saturday night =(. I roomed with Lillian who is the only Kenyan that we have on the team. Her story is quite interesting. She really wanted to help her village but her parents didn't have enough money to send her to college so she started running and UC found her and asked her to run for them. Now she is majoring in nursing so that she can help the corrupt system over there. She's an awesome runner and a very nice person. Well, I woke up Saturday morning with a stomach ache and I was all shaky. I had to force food down me at breakfast. We got to the course 3 hours before we were to run. It was freezing there but luckily there was a warm building we were allowed to stay in instead of sitting in the car for even longer. My team warms up an hour before the race. I never have warmed up that early before a race so I wait until they come back and warm up 40 ish minutes before. Well, on my warm up I couldn't breathe. I even took my inhaler and couldn't breathe. I took it again 10 minutes before the race and still couldn't breathe on my strides. I had said before that I was going to go out slower and with Lillian and Tamera, so I went out slower and ran with Tamera a little under 1 mile. Then I kept going and she went back a little bit. OH! I forgot to say that this course say SO muddy! It had standing water above our ankles on several places on the course and everything else you were just sliding around in the mud. 1/2 inch spikes come in handy, even though they look like they could kill someone. Well, I finished 34th and 1st for the team. It was an ok race but not really that awesome. I felt horrible at the end and just wanted to go home.
Our ride home was pretty uneventful as well. We drove through downtown Chicago and right by Wrigley Field. We were trying to decide were to eat when coach Susan (the heads women's coach for track and the person driving our van) said we could eat a steak and shake. The plan had been to eat at a nice restaurant in Chicago but most people though it would take way too long and we all wanted to get back home. So, then the plan degraded into eating at steak and shake. Well, she looked on her blackberry and couldn't find one. We kept looking at the exit signs and finally decided we would just go one more exit and we would just get off and find something. Well we came to the sign on the highway that says what food is at the exit and we were all reading through it and then everyone erupted in hurrahs when we read steak and shake because Susan had told us that there wasn't one in this town. We exited and drove for what felt like 4 miles probably more like 2, but there wasn't a steak and shake. We were in a lane to do a U turn and just go and find a different place to eat when Kayla who was in the very back row of this 15 passenger van said look there's steak and shake up on the right up there. So, we all erupted in hurrahs and laughs again. It was just was meant to be I guess. It was the first time that I ate at steak and shake, it was good. It was so nice to get home to Cincinnati even though a high school football game was getting out of the UC stadium right when Scott was picking me up. I love being at home and with Scott. It's the best feeling ever! Now I just sent the extra hour we had from daylight savings updating this blog somewhat. I would try to put pictures up, but our camera doesn't want to download to my computer.
