Here are three blog posts which for some reason brought me a great amount of joy and endearment to the people who created them. Perhaps you will find the same joy if you explore them yourselves:
Jame: http://ladonandjaml.blogspot.com/
Josh Bolding: http://humorubyu.blogspot.com/2011/03/so-there-was-this-one-time-i-was-in.html
ClaireFace: http://baconlust.blogspot.com/
(As a side note, I am ALWAYS endeared to every blog post I read, but for some reason, these struck me as particularly wonderful today!)
And since I know I'm probably the only one with an exact countdown:
19 Days
12 Hours
9 Minutes
and 30 seconds
Till the gun goes off!
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Boston on the Brain
On this 26th eve of the Boston Marathon
I think of nothing else the whole day long
Since there's more to be said than, "I am excited!"
Here are 26 thoughts running through my head:
1. In eighth grade my coach signed me up for the mile
And though he was young--I considered him senile
2. But I ran that race and then quite unforseen
Doherty's cross country coach asked if I'd run for the team
3. Not one to say no, I showed up the first day
And varsity took me--even with a 24 minute 5k
4. I got faster that season but still was just neutral
Meaning I didn't run any more than was usual
5. But the next year rolled around, then so did the passion
Training with Buggins, Mom, and Doug made me a fast one
6. It was that same spring when a landmark I hit
My first 10k in Tyler, Dad cheering, "You Can Win It!"
7. Well, I did, and Coach Schwartz set it up in my mind
I was a runner-- my soul was defined.
8. From that point on, I knew the joy of running
Even though my junior year was far from stunning
9. The following summer I ran to ensure preparation
And had running adventures all over the nation
10. Utah Handicap race, where, when we were done
Dad and I laughed for the raffle where EVERY soul won
11. The run with the buffs in Yellowstone Park
Made me Ol' Faithful to the journey oh which I'd embarked
12.That July Fourth I was more than all patriotic
For my first half in Wyoming made me a real addict
13. A run through corn stalks and years past in Illinois
Connected me to Halcyon and my heritage as a Roy
14. And feeling insignificant while running never felt so good
By tiptoeing reverently through the mighty Redwoods
15. Then down through L.A. and with buildings every mile
Showed me in my running I'm quite versatile
16. Then of course, summer ended and cross country began
And we won first place every time that we ran
17. The important part, though, was I signed to run Pikes Peak
And began the training journey towards 14000 feet
18. The Ascent marked a spot that told me I was tough
And since then, I can tell you, I can't get enough
19. The 5ks on campus, the short sprints through Provo
Were too short, were too little, were simply not thorough
20. But that's when it came, the idea I got lost on
It came so subtly and sudd'n'ly-- You'll run the Boston
21. Mr. Mac! Coach Deb! Lynnea, Jordan, Halcyon, Dad, and Schwartz
These people inspired me to sign up for St. George
22. After months of training consuming my mind
My little running body crossed that St. George finish line
23. Was it good? Was it great? "Too many questions!"
Although just one answer: Qualification
24. Yes, there was Boston just perched on the horizon
And since that 3:34 time, it's all I've had eyes on
25. Sometimes it's unreal and I'm in denial
Thinking of the transformation from that very first mile
26. But I'm here--and 26.2 miles away is my aim
And that's why, I'll tell you I've got
Boston on the Brain.
I think of nothing else the whole day long
Since there's more to be said than, "I am excited!"
Here are 26 thoughts running through my head:
1. In eighth grade my coach signed me up for the mile
And though he was young--I considered him senile
2. But I ran that race and then quite unforseen
Doherty's cross country coach asked if I'd run for the team
3. Not one to say no, I showed up the first day
And varsity took me--even with a 24 minute 5k
4. I got faster that season but still was just neutral
Meaning I didn't run any more than was usual
5. But the next year rolled around, then so did the passion
Training with Buggins, Mom, and Doug made me a fast one
6. It was that same spring when a landmark I hit
My first 10k in Tyler, Dad cheering, "You Can Win It!"
7. Well, I did, and Coach Schwartz set it up in my mind
I was a runner-- my soul was defined.
8. From that point on, I knew the joy of running
Even though my junior year was far from stunning
9. The following summer I ran to ensure preparation
And had running adventures all over the nation
10. Utah Handicap race, where, when we were done
Dad and I laughed for the raffle where EVERY soul won
11. The run with the buffs in Yellowstone Park
Made me Ol' Faithful to the journey oh which I'd embarked
12.That July Fourth I was more than all patriotic
For my first half in Wyoming made me a real addict
13. A run through corn stalks and years past in Illinois
Connected me to Halcyon and my heritage as a Roy
14. And feeling insignificant while running never felt so good
By tiptoeing reverently through the mighty Redwoods
15. Then down through L.A. and with buildings every mile
Showed me in my running I'm quite versatile
16. Then of course, summer ended and cross country began
And we won first place every time that we ran
17. The important part, though, was I signed to run Pikes Peak
And began the training journey towards 14000 feet
18. The Ascent marked a spot that told me I was tough
And since then, I can tell you, I can't get enough
19. The 5ks on campus, the short sprints through Provo
Were too short, were too little, were simply not thorough
20. But that's when it came, the idea I got lost on
It came so subtly and sudd'n'ly-- You'll run the Boston
21. Mr. Mac! Coach Deb! Lynnea, Jordan, Halcyon, Dad, and Schwartz
These people inspired me to sign up for St. George
22. After months of training consuming my mind
My little running body crossed that St. George finish line
23. Was it good? Was it great? "Too many questions!"
Although just one answer: Qualification
24. Yes, there was Boston just perched on the horizon
And since that 3:34 time, it's all I've had eyes on
25. Sometimes it's unreal and I'm in denial
Thinking of the transformation from that very first mile
26. But I'm here--and 26.2 miles away is my aim
And that's why, I'll tell you I've got
Boston on the Brain.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Recent Joyous Adventures!
Just a brief summary of events in pictures:
Midway Ice Castles: SO COOL.
Senior's last game. Very great.
FHE Music video.....
I am on the floor......
Monroe visit!
CharlyAnn Jill Carter! Double chin and all!
There are SIX CARTERS!!!!
I WITNESSED CHILDBIRTH AND IT WAS AMAZING! CJ WAS A BEASTHOG! Thanks for the good trip, guys!
Also:
Hahahah Cecil really didn't want to touch the purse and he gave me the craziest look, but i got the picture!
Also,
Today I signed up for this:
Midway Ice Castles: SO COOL.
Senior's last game. Very great.
FHE Music video.....
I am on the floor......Monroe visit!
CharlyAnn Jill Carter! Double chin and all!
There are SIX CARTERS!!!!
I WITNESSED CHILDBIRTH AND IT WAS AMAZING! CJ WAS A BEASTHOG! Thanks for the good trip, guys!Also:
Hahahah Cecil really didn't want to touch the purse and he gave me the craziest look, but i got the picture!Also,
Today I signed up for this:
And only ONE MONTH till THIS:
Needless to say, I am thriving :)
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Just Because it's Bloggin Day
CJ and I drove home from Colorado with much success and enjoyed a fine night in 108. Ram hahaha.... oh, Ram.
You better believe CJ is in that bathroom. haha.We took some girls from the ward to Red Robin to bond. The blond girl on the right is the RS Pres and she is pure!
The clan. We bonded. It brought me GREAT joy.
Also, on Saturday I went and ran a 10k in Delta, UT, which is a random, cow-smelled place. It was a very tiny race (the whole group we brought swept top 3 of both races) and the prize for winning was a FREE PAIR OF RUNNING SHOES!!!!!! They legitimately gave me a pair of $90.00 running shoes! They took me to the store, pointed to the wall of shoes, and told me to take my pick! It was the most amazing thing i have ever experienced, I felt like I was in a movie.
On the way home we listened to the game on the radio! YEAH BYU!!! We're looking at a potential #1 seed and a top 3 position in the nation! WOOT!
That is all. Elise made those delicious cake bites from Corinne's wedding and you now see why my love for her grows ever greater as the days go by.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Hahahah
Thank you all for the most joyously blissful, wonderfully happy, and purely ebullient adventure of a weekend which far exceeded both my expectations for it as well as the caliber of joyousness from last time we were all together. That was pure bliss.
Also, I received this email from the B.A.A. (the peeps in charge of the Boston Marathon) today and so I read their article about the top contenders competing this year and laughed my head off. You don't have to read it, just take a glance at all the highlights I inserted. (Glancing is probably all you can manage anyway, since comprehension is not approaching any time soon)
Also, I received this email from the B.A.A. (the peeps in charge of the Boston Marathon) today and so I read their article about the top contenders competing this year and laughed my head off. You don't have to read it, just take a glance at all the highlights I inserted. (Glancing is probably all you can manage anyway, since comprehension is not approaching any time soon)
BOSTON, MA, February 10, 2011-In its 26th year as principal sponsor of the Boston Marathon, John Hancock Financial today announced the elite field for the 115th running of the Boston Marathon on April 18. A complete field list follows.
Reigning champions Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot and Teyba Erkesso will defend their titles, but will be fiercely challenged by one of the fastest and deepest men's and women's fields ever assembled for the Boston Marathon.
Cheruiyot ran a stunning 2:05:52 course record last year over the difficult Boston course. In April he will face top contenders that include past and present marathon champions of New York City, Chicago, Seoul, Amsterdam, Houston, Xiamen, Torino, Eindhoven, Phoenix, Monaco, Gyeongju, Milan and Nairobi.
Geoffrey Mutai leads the line-up as the second fastest man in the world last year with a 2:04:55 best. Joining him are 2:06 men including top American Ryan Hall, Gilbert Yegon, Tadese Tola, Evans Cheruiyot and 2010 Seoul course record holder Sylvester Teimet.
Challenging this group are the 2010 New York City champion Gebregziabher Gebremariam, the newly crowned Houston course record holder Bekana Daba and 2010 Boston runner-up Tekeste Kebede.
International newcomers to the course include Philip Sanga, Feleke Cherkos, Deressa Edae, Stephen Kibiwot, Peter Kamais and 2011 Xiamen winner Robert Kipchumba. Returning to Boston are Moses Kigen Kipkosgei, Shadrack Kiplagat and American talent Antonio Vega. Irish Olympian Alistair Cragg and Kenyan Moses Mosop will make their marathon debuts.
On the women's side, the historic race in Boston has been decided over the past three years by three seconds or less. Last year Teyba Erkesso maintained a three second lead to the finish as she held off a charging Tatyana Pushkareva. This year's race likely will prove just as competitive with 16 women in the field holding times of 2:26:20 or better.
Past champions Salina Kosgei, Dire Tune and four-time winner Catherine Ndereba join Erkesso and Pushkareva. The experienced trio will contest a highly competitive race that includes 2010 international marathon champions, top Americans and talented newcomers.
Chasing the Boston champions are 2010 international marathon winners including Sharon Cherop, who edged Tirfi Tsegaye Beyene to win Toronto by one second, and Caroline Kilel, who won Frankfurt after a duel with Dire Tune. Carpi champion Hellen Mugo is on the team and she joins Amsterdam winner Alice Timbilili.
Challenging the group are top Americans Kara Goucher, who finished third in Boston in 2009, and Desiree Davila, the fastest American of 2010 with her fourth place finish in Chicago, and Olympian Blake Russell. International competitors include New Zealand Olympian Kim Smith, former Russian national record holder Galina Bogomolova and young talent Merima Mohammed from Ethiopia.
Werknesh Kidane and Florence Kiplagat also bring significant credentials to the race. Kidane is a multiple junior and senior World Cross Country champion (2 gold, 3 silver, 3 bronze) and Kiplagat, who will make her marathon debut, is a World Half Marathon and World Cross Country champion. Both women are married to men in the field: Kidane is married to Gebregziabher Gebremariam and Kiplagat is married to Moses Mosop.
Additional talent includes Silvia Skvortsova, Teyba Naser, Woynishet Girma and Yuliya Ruban.
"Throughout our more than two decade-long sponsorship of the Boston Marathon, John Hancock has each year honored its commitment to bring the world's top runners to the race and ensure that the historic Boston Marathon remains among the world's most premier sporting events," said Rob Friedman, head of Sponsorship and Event Marketing at John Hancock. "This year's field once again is filled with outstanding runners who no doubt will provide the millions of spectators and viewers with yet another thrilling contest...
...We are counting down the days to April 18th."
I am too! (But I guess before then I should either change my name to LaDon Sogijrakdslng or register under my middle name. Krista Roy is just too normal and sayable!)
Anyway, less than 2 months!AAAAAAAAAA!
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
I finally get to make this blog!!!
Catch your breath while you can, there is much to say.
With that said, I will not leave you breathless...............
That's sign language for "I Love You!!!!" (Just kidding, Brenda would shoot me if she knew I just posted something so preposterous to the whole world)
But really, the long-awaited Preference was a great success for all involved! (And just tell me Brenda's boy doesn't look like Bro. Slaugh's clone!)
We enjoyed a fine game of bowling and much eating of food. It was a very great moment, and Brenda was beaming without stop. Oh, Brenda :)
Below is my roommate, Amber. Her date Doug got 10 points in my book because Doug the dog is so dear to me!
Kelcey's date and Kelcey and I. Since we're looking at dates, just look at Kelcey's date and tell me if he doesn't remind you of a character off Hoodwinked.............................................. (as a side note, the haircut he is sporting is one I gave him in my kitchen!)
This is all of us together. I wore that awesome jacket as an attempt at Toy Story costumeness (I know, I am sorry, Carters, it was Toy Story costume and we failed miserably!)
In the end, preference was BUENO (very good, for all of you who speak Dad's spanish) and you can be expecting an announcement for Brenda and Reed any day now (That's another bullet from Brenda for me!)
Next headline: the Endurathon! (Camera's still broken, so no pics)
IT WAS SO HARD! We swam in an endless pool, which means I didn't actually go anywhere and it was the hardest 15 minutes of my life. All I can say is, if I were a salmon, there would be no Krista spawn in this world.
The biking was even harder!!!
The running was hard, considering I do so much of it anyway.
Here's a link to the spreadsheet of everyone's results: http://bit.ly/f0qmGz , but for those of you who don't want to look, I swam about a half mile, biked about 22, and ran almost 6, totaling around 27 miles. I counted in the top 12 distances they used to compare our scores, and I went the furthest out of all the girls. How this happened, I do not know. But happen it did, and much fatigue it brought.
In other news, I talked to Sarahho this weekend and she is doing GREAT! Do you realize Sarah Griggs is in JERUSALEM!? That is so wild! I'm sure it will bring much joy to most of you that when the time came to hang up, even halfway across the world, we still said, "1,2,3!" and then hung up. hahaha childhood never dies.
It was Valentine's Day. As insincere as it may seem, I wrote a little poem for all the Grounds foremen. It went like this:
Just kidding.
But speaking of pictures, here's some:
Texas doo rag?
Lise is touching my butt? (as always)
We don't actually know?
Brenda going to church?
Amber texting?
Kim letting some random 27 year old boy in our ward cut her hair with normal shears?
All of us girls are going to be in the shadow of Pikes Peak in less than 3 days?
Yes, life is ebullient.
With that said, I will not leave you breathless...............
That's sign language for "I Love You!!!!" (Just kidding, Brenda would shoot me if she knew I just posted something so preposterous to the whole world)But really, the long-awaited Preference was a great success for all involved! (And just tell me Brenda's boy doesn't look like Bro. Slaugh's clone!)
We enjoyed a fine game of bowling and much eating of food. It was a very great moment, and Brenda was beaming without stop. Oh, Brenda :)Below is my roommate, Amber. Her date Doug got 10 points in my book because Doug the dog is so dear to me!
Kelcey's date and Kelcey and I. Since we're looking at dates, just look at Kelcey's date and tell me if he doesn't remind you of a character off Hoodwinked.............................................. (as a side note, the haircut he is sporting is one I gave him in my kitchen!)
This is all of us together. I wore that awesome jacket as an attempt at Toy Story costumeness (I know, I am sorry, Carters, it was Toy Story costume and we failed miserably!)
In the end, preference was BUENO (very good, for all of you who speak Dad's spanish) and you can be expecting an announcement for Brenda and Reed any day now (That's another bullet from Brenda for me!)Next headline: the Endurathon! (Camera's still broken, so no pics)
IT WAS SO HARD! We swam in an endless pool, which means I didn't actually go anywhere and it was the hardest 15 minutes of my life. All I can say is, if I were a salmon, there would be no Krista spawn in this world.
The biking was even harder!!!
The running was hard, considering I do so much of it anyway.
Here's a link to the spreadsheet of everyone's results: http://bit.ly/f0qmGz , but for those of you who don't want to look, I swam about a half mile, biked about 22, and ran almost 6, totaling around 27 miles. I counted in the top 12 distances they used to compare our scores, and I went the furthest out of all the girls. How this happened, I do not know. But happen it did, and much fatigue it brought.
In other news, I talked to Sarahho this weekend and she is doing GREAT! Do you realize Sarah Griggs is in JERUSALEM!? That is so wild! I'm sure it will bring much joy to most of you that when the time came to hang up, even halfway across the world, we still said, "1,2,3!" and then hung up. hahaha childhood never dies.
It was Valentine's Day. As insincere as it may seem, I wrote a little poem for all the Grounds foremen. It went like this:
It's that day, so long awaited
Which makes those in love, oh, so elated
And since we all love BYU Grounds
We thought we'd spread that love around
So for the lawns you mow, the snow you shovel
The bushes you prune, and then above all
The service and love you give full time
Have a happy Grounds Valentine!
I attached this picture:
Which makes those in love, oh, so elated
And since we all love BYU Grounds
We thought we'd spread that love around
So for the lawns you mow, the snow you shovel
The bushes you prune, and then above all
The service and love you give full time
Have a happy Grounds Valentine!
I attached this picture:
Just kidding.
But speaking of pictures, here's some:
Texas doo rag?
Lise is touching my butt? (as always)
We don't actually know?
Brenda going to church?
Amber texting?
Kim letting some random 27 year old boy in our ward cut her hair with normal shears?
All of us girls are going to be in the shadow of Pikes Peak in less than 3 days?Yes, life is ebullient.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Surprise #2 for Jerusalem Jacksons!
Happy Birthday from Tristram, Dan, Lise, Kris, and Kelc (our new roommate who you will love)
Direct quotes from Tris and Dan:
"We love you" "Yeah!"
Happy Birthday, girls! We hope it was wonderful!
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