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Written By Jon Blais - who died from ALS in 2006.  He did Hawaii Ironman in 2005 - such a great person and athlete

Getting the sailboat ready for launch time!!

Another beautiful weekend to get some work done.  We took the sailboat cover off - ahhh.

 

 And cleaned the inside.  Just need some buffing on the outside and it will be ready to launch!

 Sailboat cover is huge - this is just half of it.  We laid it in our front yard so we could fold it

Getting ready for summer - yay!

Clean UP time!

We actually had a weekend with no snow where we could clean up the yard & burn the extra stuff :)

 

 Chris took down a couple trees too - just some extra ones - nothing too dramatic

I can't believe it - but the snow has melted!

Only a couple little piles of snow left.  We can't believe it all melted away.  Thank goodness!!

 We can actually get the cars out of the trailers & start enjoying spring!!

Our first Ultra! 50K trail run

We did it!  Our first Ultra run!  We've been talking about it for a couple years, and we finally did it.  Yay!

 The race was in FL - so while we were visiting Chris' mom, we took a day to do the race.  We actually didn't train specifically for it.  Our longest run was only 13 miles (and this was 31), but we have been biking a lot, so we definitely had some endurance.  We were planning on just doing the 16 mile course, but it was sold out, so we signed up for the 50K, and said we would bail on lap 1 if it got too tuff.

 The course was beautiful - woodsy and only a couple technical spots.  Lap 1 was really nice - the sun stayed hidden, but it did pop out for lap 2, and I was wondering why I thought the race was so shaded the first lap...  Lap 1 went well- they had aid stations about every 5 miles and they came up pretty quickly.  The last 5 miles was pretty hilly.  We took about 3 minutes (should have taken a couple more) to fill up with fluid & change socks (Steph) at the end of Lap 1 (16 miles).  We took off for lap 2 a little stiff (it's so hard to stop sometimes).  The first mile was pretty rooty, so we walked a little extra - but it soon turned back to sand & dirt.  My hips & calves definitely started complaining around mile 20, but we kept chugging.  It was actually nice to not know exactly what mile you were at all the time - it was a refreshing way to race.  The last 5 miles were pretty difficult - the hills - ouch.  But we finished - - yay!

 We were happy to see the finish line & get our mug :)

 We really liked the experience.  There was no racing - just a bunch of people running the trails.  Laid back friendly runners.  These 2 were finishing the 50 miler - wowzer!

 My calves started seizing after we finished, so I had to sit :)

 We definitely got dirty!  and it took a couple days for my hips to like me again.  But all in all, we recovered pretty quickly.  Guess we'll have to do another one!

Easter in Florida!

Gotta love FL sunshine!

 We headed south for Easter - to visit Chris' mom :)

perfect weather - so Easter Sunday, we took a nice trip to a local beach

 Tons of sand crabs - they are so tiny & look so much like the sand, you can barely see them...

We had a great trip - although it was too short

Insulating the pickup

one more step completed!