Happy 15th Birthday Kaytee!

The Maui Race

From the copter
Beautiful sunset
This picture doesn't do it justice. The waterfalls I saw from the helicopter were amazing! We also flew right into a rainbow. I only got a bit sick feeling when the pilot kept flying in circles so that we could all see the whales.


In short, I ran the 9.2 mile race in 1 hour and 33 minutes. It was a beautiful run, but my knee is really messed up. I have to go see a doctor before I will run again.



Maui is (of course) beautiful! I flew in on Friday morning and immediately headed for the heliport. We have an agreement with Alex Air and I decided I wanted to go for a senic tour around the island. Luckily they had an empty seat and I got to sit up front on my first helicopter ride. It was awesome!!

The next day I spent most of it on the beach in Lahina.

As for the race...9.2 miles that started in Napaili and ended in Lahina. It was a wonderful run. I never posted this, but I messed up my knee a little while ago and have been resting it until the race, hoping it would just turn out to be something minor.
Well....it started hurting before the first mile. I didn't stop. By the third mile the pain went away. I was so happy and spent the next 5 miles enjoying the view. The last mile almost killed me! I had taken to much water at the aid stations and was feeling very sick.

I crossed the finish line with a time of 1:33:45 and threw up. Not exactly the way I wanted to finish...but hey, at least I didn't stop. I ran the whole race.

The rest of the day I ached in pain as my knee flared up with great intensity. Now I must find time to go have it checked out. But man, was it worth it! Running in Maui...does it get any better than that? I don't think so.

One more thing...

I'm going to Maui next week. Here's why...

www.maui15k.com

BTW...

I GOT AWARDED MY TRANSFER TO FRESNO!!

No more reserve for me! I will be bidding for the Feburary schedule. I have tons of seniority there.

The secret is happy thoughts

HAPPY NEW YEAR? Yes, it sure will be!

I'm reading a book that my mother swears works. It's called "The Secret".

It explains the power of possitive thoughts. It kinda goes with what I've said all along...

"Happiness is a choice you make daily."

Basically it says that the law of attraction determines your life. You are what you think. If you think negative "bad" thoughts then that is what you will attract to your life. But if you think happy thoughts then happy things will come to you.

It is true that bad things happen. You'd all agree that I've been through my fair share, but dwelling on it... in my opinion, only makes more bad things happen. Have I really been making it worse by asking for what I don't want? Time to change the frequency of my thoughts.

Yesterday I put this theory into practice. I had to take Kaytee to a doctors appt. We were supposed to be early to do paperwork, but with a bad storm coming in and not knowing where the place was, I didn't think that was going to be possible. I repeated over in my head..."I want to be ontime." We ended up being 10 minutes early.

I think the secret is to not worry. Keep your thoughts with what you do want...not focusing on what you don't want. The book says you should vision the events you want to happen and that will become reality. I'm not convinced of that...but hey, it couldn't hurt right?

Don't worry...be happy!