OK everyone, next Friday, June 25th is our party to celebrate our extraordinary accomplishment of walking/exercising Across America! YEA! We did it! Party will be at Linda & Jeff's at 1171 E. Winston Dr. in Kaysville. 6:00pm starts the BBQ so bring your own meat and buns and a salad and/or dessert. We'll have the paper products and drinks. This is going to be fun. Below are the directions and you can call me or Linda for RSVP. Wendy at 801-498-0166 or Linda at 801-547-5002. Also let your friends and family who joined us know about this or they can go on the blog at www.walkingwithwendyk.blogspot.com. We hope to see you there!
From I15 - take the Kaysville exit and head East (towards the mountains). Go straight up about a mile and turn left (North) on 500 East.
Turn right (East) on Crestwood (in front of the cemetery) and follow that until you're almost to I89.
Turn left (North) on Winston and stay on Winston until almost the end. They are the second house from the corner. You have to drive up and around on Winston
From I89- Turn West on Crestwood (between Muttonhollow Rd and 200 North). Take an immediate right on Winston and stay on Winston until almost the end. They are the second house from the corner. You have to drive up and around on Winston.
Have fun and let us know by Thursday the 24th!
CONGRATULATIONS! WE DID IT!
Thought for the day: "Just Do it!" ~President Spencer W. Kimball
Friday, June 18, 2010
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
CONGRATULATIONS!
Congrats to everyone! We've made it Across America!!!!!! Everyone should feel very proud of themselves for this incredible accomplishment. Lots of hard work, determination and dedication has helped us reach our goal. WOW! We actually have gone farther because several people haven't logged in their entries so once everyone catches up we'll be in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.:)
Mark your calendars for Friday, June 25th for our party. We're doing it a couple of weeks early because we reached our goal so fast. We'll have a BBQ at Linda's house in Kaysville. I'll give more details later but Friday, June 25th at 6:00pm will be the party date!!! Congrats again everyone! I'm so proud of you all!!!
Now it's time to set our next goal of Walking With Wendy World Wide! We're already 1/8th of the way finished so let's go for the globe! This summer there are several events happening you can do (active.com) or just getting fit like everyone's been doing. Remember to log in your entries! Don't worry if you're not doing a lot. Every step counts and it all adds up fast, so keep track and get moving.
You are all wonderful and amazing!!
Thought for the day: "If you can dream it you can achieve it." ~Walt Disney
(we dreamed and achieved!)
Mark your calendars for Friday, June 25th for our party. We're doing it a couple of weeks early because we reached our goal so fast. We'll have a BBQ at Linda's house in Kaysville. I'll give more details later but Friday, June 25th at 6:00pm will be the party date!!! Congrats again everyone! I'm so proud of you all!!!
Now it's time to set our next goal of Walking With Wendy World Wide! We're already 1/8th of the way finished so let's go for the globe! This summer there are several events happening you can do (active.com) or just getting fit like everyone's been doing. Remember to log in your entries! Don't worry if you're not doing a lot. Every step counts and it all adds up fast, so keep track and get moving.
You are all wonderful and amazing!!
Thought for the day: "If you can dream it you can achieve it." ~Walt Disney
(we dreamed and achieved!)
Monday, May 31, 2010
Happy Memorial Day!
Hope everyone has had a nice, relaxing Memorial Day! How blessed we are for our veteran's and those who died for our freedoms! We are 84% there for achieving our goal of walking across this great country of ours. Great job everyone and those who are still doing it! We are in New Mexico now and Linda, Kari and Jane have the Little Red Riding Hood bike marathon this coming weekend then the Ragnar in June. With their hard work and enthusiasm, we will have reached our goal by July! Great job everyone!
Thought for Day: "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." — General George S. Patton
Thought for Day: "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived." — General George S. Patton
Friday, May 21, 2010
Long Time No Write:)
It's been over a week since my last post. My knee is a little better but not healing as fast as I want. Everyone else is doing great! We have a few more who have joined us so great work everyone! We have about 800 more units until we have walked across America!!!! This is fabulous!
There's a 5K/10k, half marathon in Farmington on Saturday, July 10th. For the 5K/10K there's an early registeration prior to July 8th for $18 and starts at 6:45am.
The 1/2 marathon is $30 and starts at 6:30am. The registration fee includes a teeshirt and a free breakfast afterwards. We did it last year and it was really fun.
We think we may have the walking across America party the night before, Friday, July 9th or possibly the week before. Not quite sure but I'll keep you posted.
Great job everyone! Keep up the good work and keep smiling:)
Thought for the day: "If you can dream it you can achieve it." ~?
There's a 5K/10k, half marathon in Farmington on Saturday, July 10th. For the 5K/10K there's an early registeration prior to July 8th for $18 and starts at 6:45am.
The 1/2 marathon is $30 and starts at 6:30am. The registration fee includes a teeshirt and a free breakfast afterwards. We did it last year and it was really fun.
We think we may have the walking across America party the night before, Friday, July 9th or possibly the week before. Not quite sure but I'll keep you posted.
Great job everyone! Keep up the good work and keep smiling:)
Thought for the day: "If you can dream it you can achieve it." ~?
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
YES WE CAN!
It's another week so hope you are all well and happy. I've been doing stretching exercises with my knee, but the pain wasn't getting better so I felt I better go to the doctor. I limped, or more like wobbled, to the elevator, as the stairs are too painful right now. Limped to his office where he looked at my knee, bent my knee then he jerked it and boy, I about screamed in pain. He sent me to xray. I wobbled to xray where my knee was jerked around again. After taking 3 xrays I wobbled back to the doctor's where he was able to instantly see my xrays. I have a fractured knee cap and a torn ligament! Just Kidding.ha ha! Now I feel like a wimp as I only have inflammation and thinning cartilage on the one side of the knee joint. It's almost bone on bone but enough cartilage to last me, hopefully 21 years until I get on Medicare to pay for surgery. I don't think it will last that long, but anyway, no more stairs for me per doctor's orders. Walking is to be minimal until the inflammation goes down and if it still bothers me after the anti-inflammatory medication then I need to see an orthopedic surgeon. I think I would rather deal with the pain. Stairs are grueling on the knees so be careful. Both of Sally's knees are bothering her, so no more stairs for Sally.
Mark your calendars for Saturday, July 10th! It's the Farmington 5K/10K walk/run. You can register on Active.com or on Farmington's Website. I'll post the website next week. We did it last year and it's a beautiful walk and quite flat and easy. I was able to do the 5K in 1 hour 9 minutes so this year I'm hoping to get under an hour. Afterwards then we'll have our 4th of July celebration for Walking Across America! We can do it and we are doing it! YES WE CAN!! Way to go everyone! Also, thank you for the wonderful and positive comments! You are all an inspiration to me! Thank you and love you!
Thought for the day: "If you think you can or think you can't - you are right." ~Henry Ford
Mark your calendars for Saturday, July 10th! It's the Farmington 5K/10K walk/run. You can register on Active.com or on Farmington's Website. I'll post the website next week. We did it last year and it's a beautiful walk and quite flat and easy. I was able to do the 5K in 1 hour 9 minutes so this year I'm hoping to get under an hour. Afterwards then we'll have our 4th of July celebration for Walking Across America! We can do it and we are doing it! YES WE CAN!! Way to go everyone! Also, thank you for the wonderful and positive comments! You are all an inspiration to me! Thank you and love you!
Thought for the day: "If you think you can or think you can't - you are right." ~Henry Ford
Thursday, May 6, 2010
Keep Going!
Hope everyone is happy and healthy! We are half way there to our goal of Walking across America!
We are passing through Kansas and still moving forward. Jeff has made a fun map of our progress so click on it when you enter your information on the fitness entry form. You may be surprised to see your picture on the map. There's even a picture of Dad in a jazzy scooter, but I don't think that counts:) Jeff, thank you for all your hard work and dedication on this fun adventure! Everyone is doing great and hopefully feeling great! We should reach our goal by June so mark your calendars for the 4th of July for a big celebration! I think we should just keep moving and continue with Walking with Wendy WORLD WIDE! We can make it around the globe! We'll need everyone's help but we can do it! It's only 24,902 miles so once we reach our goal of America we are 1/8 finished with the earth. I'm feeling a little over-ambitious:)
My knee is still quite painful so I'm giving it one more week before I see the doctor. This knee has troubled me for years and I think climbing so many stairs at a time was too much. Sally's knee is also bothering her and Janet bruised the top of her foot from going up the stairs just on the balls of her feet. Walking works best for us. I did some walking at BYU last week but not as much as I wanted to. It has been frustrating because I was doing so well and now with this knee problem.:( It was a little better today so I'm hoping by Monday I'll be able to join my co-workers on our walks. AJ injured his ankle a month ago and he's still going and Mom and her knee problems and she's still going, and Dad with his hip problems. So it's good not to give up and to keep moving. I keep thinking that I'm trying to do this goal and so afraid I'm not going to make it and let people down but I need to remember the following thought for the day...
"Do or do not--there is no try." ~Yoda
"May the force be with you!" ~Yoda and company
We are passing through Kansas and still moving forward. Jeff has made a fun map of our progress so click on it when you enter your information on the fitness entry form. You may be surprised to see your picture on the map. There's even a picture of Dad in a jazzy scooter, but I don't think that counts:) Jeff, thank you for all your hard work and dedication on this fun adventure! Everyone is doing great and hopefully feeling great! We should reach our goal by June so mark your calendars for the 4th of July for a big celebration! I think we should just keep moving and continue with Walking with Wendy WORLD WIDE! We can make it around the globe! We'll need everyone's help but we can do it! It's only 24,902 miles so once we reach our goal of America we are 1/8 finished with the earth. I'm feeling a little over-ambitious:)
My knee is still quite painful so I'm giving it one more week before I see the doctor. This knee has troubled me for years and I think climbing so many stairs at a time was too much. Sally's knee is also bothering her and Janet bruised the top of her foot from going up the stairs just on the balls of her feet. Walking works best for us. I did some walking at BYU last week but not as much as I wanted to. It has been frustrating because I was doing so well and now with this knee problem.:( It was a little better today so I'm hoping by Monday I'll be able to join my co-workers on our walks. AJ injured his ankle a month ago and he's still going and Mom and her knee problems and she's still going, and Dad with his hip problems. So it's good not to give up and to keep moving. I keep thinking that I'm trying to do this goal and so afraid I'm not going to make it and let people down but I need to remember the following thought for the day...
"Do or do not--there is no try." ~Yoda
"May the force be with you!" ~Yoda and company
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