Best weekend ever!!!

I probably say this a lot but this was the best weekend ever!!!  or at least until the next best weekend ever right!! But I'm not complaining I try my hardest to fully enjoy each weekend and love it when I top it!  We went up to the mountains for the weekend and stayed at my parents house which is always nice!

Got there Friday night a little later than expected so the sun had already gone down and I attempted to go for a quick run but it was cut short due to an unidentified animal.  First I saw 5 deer, no big deal they leave you alone, then it got pitch dark because there were no more street lights and I heard some rustling in the trees nearby, so I booked it home didn't want to take any chances.  Of course they teased me once I got back,
Was it a cougar?!"  Then I ran 1 mile on my parents poor little treadmill that sounded like the bolts were going to fly off if I went faster than 6 mph :-)

The bike ride, hills we were headed towards

Gross porta potties we had to use and broken bottles everywhere!!!

Saturday we woke up had a hearty breakfast and headed down the hill for what was supposed to be an 85 mi bike ride.  The way out was fast and easy and slightly downhill which I didn't realize by how much.  Hubs rode along with us longer than I thought he would due to his knee and to the fact that he hasn't had time to build up his rides as much yet.  My dad and I went almost to Las Cruces and turned around.  The way back was slightly uphill and man on man the winds were power zapping.  Turns out hubs needed a ride back but he made it 50 miles he had too much lactic acid build up and his legs stopped working, but great effort considering he hadn't trained up.  I bonked at about mile 60 and started to struggle but played some head games with myself and managed to push through until I got to the border patrol station where I barely managed to sputter out my answer "yes" when he asked if I was a U.S. citizen.  My dad was kindly waiting there for me.  I told him I'd make it back to the care but probably not the extra miles past it to make the 85.  He could have kept going and blew us away!!!!  So overall great ride I ended up doing 73 mi averaging 16.5 mph and I should have taken more food and planned better for the winds but lessons learned and hard effort put out by all!

Pee break!

Sunday I did a 16 mile run at 9,000 ft. when my lungs are use to 5,000 and lots of HILLS! Beautiful scenery, have I mentioned how much I LOVE FALL RUNNING!!!  I felt awesome during the entire run until the last 1.5 miles when the hills finally took over and I fell apart a little.  I was really happy with this run and even stopped to take some pics with my cell.  I didn't realize I'd have a support crew show up in PJs to snap some shots of me at around mile 11 :-)

Then that afternoon hubs and I went for our first Skydive jump!!!!!!  It was so awesome and breathe taking!  I wasn't scared at all like I thought I'd be.  You don't get that weird feeling of our stomach going into your throat like you do in roller coasters.  We flew next to the mountains while we were gaining elevation which made for some great views and maybe a few bumps which someone else in the plane may not have appreciated :-)  The free fall was so fast and over way before I was ready for it to be!  We did 1 flip and apparently my husband did 2-3.  I was smiling the entire time and managed to remember to take video of the views too!  The video is priceless and I went second so I got some footage of hubs going first!  I would recommend this for any ones bucket list!  I did get a little nauseous when he did some spinning once the parachute was out but I said yes I wanted to do it again even though I could feel myself getting a little sick I mean who knew when I'd do this again!   My dad took some great pics this weekend and was a great support as usual.  Cool tid bit we jumped on the same day as Felix Baumgartner and they said you could see his balloon from where we were.

Some stats hubs got from his Garmin: we jumped at 11,504 feet above sea level. Max speed of 138.1 mph. chutes popped at 7,700 ft asl which left a parachute ride down of about 3,000 feet for us to reach alamo ground level at somewhere around 4,700 feet elevation. (all numbers approx..)

Happy Monday!  See you on the trails!