THE BENSON'S: September 2010

RACE!!!

So my brother Bryan talked me into doing a trail run/Mtn. bike race as a team with him. So me thinking since I ran 5-6 miles a couple of days a week, I thought a 4 miles trail run wouldn't be to bad at all and then thought I better get some Mtn. biking in for the 10 mile Mtn. bike part of it. Well low and behold this race was a hole lot more then just trail running. We did a 2 miles loop for the run and a 5 mile loop for the bike and we each had to do them twice in a row. We ran through rivers, jumped/crawled under trees, over fences and logs. The run was actually pretty fun, but coming out of the water my shoes felt like they weighed 20lbs. The bike part of it was fun at the beginning until we got to the sandy hill and mile long stretch of just sand. Basically you just spun in the sand, and if you tried to ride in it you used all your energy staying in one place, so it seemed. Once again most of my pictures didn't download, but here are some that did.

Camping

Camping at Tony Grove is one of our favorite things to do as a family.
Zeb loves smores and could eat and eat them.

Zeb has really took to fishing this year and loves to go any chance he gets.. Sad thing is Rich nor I really like to do it, but his uncles do and that gets Rich out doing it with Zeb:).....

Brent pushed Rich out on the log so he could try and get some better fishing, and as you can see it is Waiste deep to Brent. (The sad thing is my picture of Rich soaking wet didn't download.... ) After Brent pushed the log out he decided to go dry off. When rich was done Brent didn't want to get wet again so he threw a log to Rich to have him push his self back. As Rich was pushing on the log he lost his balance and fell in the water and went all the way under. When he came back up he was so cold he could hardly breath..... We couldn't decide if the look on his face from falling in our coming out was the funnest... Poor guy was freezing wet for the rest of the day:)