Biggest Loser Finale....

I can't believe no one has talked about this on their blog yet (Kate and Jen! LOL!). I just watched the Finale late last week. I must say, I was in TOTAL shock! I just KNEW that Tara was going to win.
When they announced that Mikey would be in the final 3, and Ron wouldn't, I was afraid that Ron would win the "at home" portion, which isn't fair since he was on the Ranch the whole time. Thankfully this wasn't the case! Yea!!!! I was so Proud of Jerry and his wife, they definitely deserve to win!
Then for the final 3. Again, I just KNEW that Tara was going to win. She had never fallen below the yellow line, had won almost all of the challenges, etc. But then I was SHOCKED to see that Helen won! Pink Team won again, 3 seasons in a row! Wow!!!
Were you all as shocked as I was????

Free Registration! Yea!

Race Follow Up E-mail contained the following pictures of the flooded course. Guess it was a good thing they cancelled the Half-marathon after all.

We also received the following information:
"Refunds and Rescheduling Questions ...The industry standard policy for race cancellation due to "acts of god", like the flash flooding this weekend, is to not issue any refunds as most costs are incurred leading up to race day whether the event occurs or not. Furthermore, resources are typically not available to allow for the rescheduling of an event of this size within a reasonable timeframe. But we're runners too, and we know that while these things happen, it is disappointing to not be able to run a race you've been training for and so looking forward to! We will be holding another Half Marathon and 5K on Sunday, September 27, 2009. All May participants will receive a FREE entry into the event that they were signed up for in May.

You will not receive another event shirt, because you received your May 2009 one. When half marathoners cross the finish line, you WILL receive your May 2009 finisher medal. "

So, there you have it. I have taken advantage of this offer, and am registered for the September event. :)

Half-Marathon Disappointment

(First off, a huge {{HUG}} and thank you shout out to my dear friend Kate! Thank you for checking in on me this morning, to see how how my marathon went. Your words of encouragement, and the fact that you remembered and were thinking of me means so much to me. You're such an inspiration!!!!)

For anyone else who may be interested. We went over on Saturday, and stayed the night in a Hotel close to where the Half-marathon was to be held. On our way there, it was storming really bad and we heard that there was a Tornado warning close to where we live. So we were saying a prayer that we would still have a house when we returned.
We got over there, and I picked up my packet. (My shirt, my number and safety pins, and a bunch of free samples.) Then we went over and checked into our hotel, and immediately the boys wanted to go swimming (I made sure to get one with an indoor pool). After we swam for awhile, we got ready to go eat dinner. I had called Ken, but my Aunt Linda and cousin Taran weren't there yet, and our boys were "starving", so we went ahead and went to dinner by ourselves.
We then came back and took the boys swimming again. We got them in bed around 9:30pm, since we were going to have an early morning on race day.
I of course didn't sleep very well. I was having nightmares about over-sleeping and being late for the race, and then I was having nightmares that drug dealers were taking over the hotel, and I was fighting them and tyring to get away, while yelling at Stephen to shoot them! (crazy, i know!) So I was relieved to get up at 4:30am, when my alarm went off. We got up, got ready and left our hotel room at 5:20am, to take the boys to I-hop for breakfast. On our way there, my Aunt Linda called me. The race had been cancelled. At 3:40am that morning, we were getting some major storms, with hail and high winds, and flash flooding. The race route was flooded, and they called the race off because more storms were expected that morning. I was so utterly disappointed. What made it even worse, was that once we had got up at 4:30 that morning, it wasn't storming and it never stormed or rained a single drop for the rest of the day! I guess the route could have still been under water though. But still, it was a total let down, to have it cancelled at the last minute.
So, we took our time and enjoyed a nice quiet breakfast. Then we went back to the hotel and let the boys swim again. We then got ready and drove over to Cabellas. We had never been there before, but heard it was like Bass Pro, and since we were so close, why not. It was really fun. We spent most of the morning and early afternoon there. (We took a few pictures at the hotel before we left, and then I also snapped some at cabellas. click here if you want to see them, they are on my other blog). We were all exhausted, so we came home and crashed on the couch and watched some movies. It was a nice, relaxing evening, and we got in bed early. It was great and I was sleeping like a log, until every device Stephen owns was ringing or beeping at 1:30 am this morning....he got paged into work. When I woke up to my alarm at 6:20 this morning, he was cuddled up to me in bed, and whispered to me that the coffee was ready for me. He is such a sweetie!!!! (The word "Coffee" is definitely music to my ears in the morning. LoL! he then caught a few more hours of sleep before getting up and going back to work).

So it was a fun weekend, even though I didn't get to run the half-marathon that I have been training for, for the past 13 weeks. Hopefully they will re-schedule it. If not, I will just find another one to start training for.