365 Days with the Carlsons: 2013

Monday, December 30, 2013

12-30-2013

not in my original plans for today...

running 21miles...

but late last night, pascale started to freak out a little about the carlsbad marathon. ideally, she wanted to be able to get in her last long run (20mi, at least) 2 weeks before race day. but she's going out of town for a church retreat, and won't be able to run.

so...i had planned on just running 5mi out with her, and then heading home alone...while she continued on towards the end of the riverbed for the 20mi run...

but like i said, freaking out a little...so i offered to run with her the whole way. why did i do that? i have no idea, really...

she totally made it just fine. 3:50 i think for her...which ended up being a little bit faster plus 1 mile longer than her last run at the beach (20mi)!

she's got this in the bag... =)

i spent some time on pinterest last night, and found some other nifty ideas for the boys' faces...
they both really wanted to be the super mario bros.
so here they are!!

it's me, mario!
it's me, luigi!

12-29-2013

dashiell listened to brennan reading his stink book tonight

Sunday, December 29, 2013

12-28-2013

copying a face paint he got from legoland, i tried to make zane today.

it was HARD to do!!

thank goodness he loved it! <3 p="">

and dashiell had a plane right onto his nose!

saw jackie and raquel (and dickie, too) for a couple hours this afternoon.
they met matt as i dropped him off for practice. how he's grown, compared to his cousins!

meeting with the little ones

12-27-2013

superhero brennan

12-26-2013

pascale and i decided to head back to more familiar grounds, and went to carbon canyon.
we planned on running 18+ miles today, but it was soooo windy! at mile 7, we decided to turn down the bovinian delight trail and head into four corners (which would have been mile 12 if we continued ahead). once we got there, we decided since we were cutting the run short, we would check out a new trail. we headed uphill to north ridge and found some rocks stacked in piles as well as a tower that seemed to be at the highest point of our run.
it was a much nicer view than what the remaining 6 miles normally would have been (which has the last 3-4 miles pretty FLAT). north ridge was not like telegraph canyon trail at all! lots and lots of hilly parts. we ended up logging 2140 total feet in elevation gain over 15 miles.

to put it into perspective...
turnbull was 1296ft the other day)
NOT running up to north ridge would have been 1350ft elevation gain
our previous 20mi run through here was 2338ft elevation gain

so even though we ran 5 miles less than intended, we were only short 200ft in elevation gain. yikes! no wonder it was so tough to run.

although we grumbled a lot during the run, i'm pretty sure we will do it again. =D