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Warrior Dash 2013 - Hastings, Minnesota - Just do it!

For the last year my feet and I have struggled, it started May 2012 with a stress fracture to my right foot.  Because of that fracture I didn't get to run in the Minnesota Warrior Dash (my son took my place).  I did get to participate in Dirty Girl, Tough Mudder and various 5K's later in the summer though my feet hurt every single time.

Today I got to tackle the MN Warrior Dash.  It's held at Afton Alps ski area and much of it is uphill, the cardiovascular portion of it is tough because of that. The rest of the course was great, fun obstacles.

Last year's t-shirt and medal on the left; this year's t-shirt and medal on the right.

These feet, right here, I'm finally doing something right.  Earlier this year I broke two toes on the right foot (two different incidents), and still my feet were hurting most days.  I finally went to my doc, who verified I had recently broken two toes and told me that I have arthritis in my feet.  She recommended ice and naproxen.  

Since then I've also started taking TriFlex Sport (Glucosamine, Chondroitin and more) and increased my fish oil.  I made it through the dash without ANY foot pain, even though my fitbit One shows I logged over 10,000 steps and 74 levels (flights of stairs).  I'm so happy I think I'll do the happy dance!

Dennis's 2012 medal and MY 2013 medal/bottle opener - it's a shame I don't drink beer, lol.

Maggie Moo's

We had a horrible, bland dinner at Champps [(maybe the double 'p' should have clued us in) afterwards  husband looked them up on Urbanspoon, if we had looked first we would not have stopped].  So we treated ourselves to some Maggie Moo's.

Being the great guy he is, he let me choose my two ice cream cupcakes first. :)  I shared them with my MacBook, lol.

Wish us luck, it's an early morning as we make our way to Afton Alps to participate in the Warrior Dash.  If you're not familiar with it, it's a 5k mud run with obstacles.  Should be loads of fun, and loads of mud.

Muscial Mailboxes & Driveway

They are working on our road and one morning I went out to find my driveway nearly gone.  Luckily, I have a Jeep.  No driveway, no problem.  Also, notice my mailbox across from the driveway, a little to the left.

Later that day the dozer made my driveway a huge drop off, a little hard to tell from this photo, but it drops significantly.

And still later. . .they said it would be a three hour job, lol.  It took all day.  Also notice my mailbox is now gone.

My house on the left of the picture.  They're actually moving the road away from us a bit.  Putting in a large ditch and shoulder too.  If you look towards the white house on the corner you will see my mailbox in front of it.  It spent a couple of days there, then I woke up this morning to see. . . 

Yep, the mailboxes are inside my driveway, the mailman will have to pull on in, lol.  I think I like this placement the best.  No more playing frogger to get the mail.

I didn't know my husband bought a bastard

At least he was cheap. 

What if I use a seed?

Anybody missing this?