Warning!!! iPhones can be hazardous to your health!!

Thanks to my new employer, Monavie I have a new iPhone 3G. I am amazed at how helpful it is to have & how addicting it is. I have loved checking the traffic, playing games, getting my email, etc. However, I never thought it would lead to this.....

NOT Normal bending of the pinky finger.....



or THIS......


Yesterday at the BYU football game I was sitting near the portal and didn't want my new iPhone to fall out of my pocket and over the railing, so naturally I went to transfer it from my left pocket to my right pocket. While doing this I lost a grip on my phone and subsequently dropped it (it is okay), but my pinky finger ended up bent oddly. I thought it was jammed or dislocated & even had my co-workers try to pop it back into place. This happened prior to kick off and I did stay for the entire game (can't pass up the Legacy seats!!!). I decided to take a visit to the Instacare as my finger just didn't look right.

I became "that weird injury" at the Instacare....mostly for how I busted my finger up. Seriously the doctor laughed out loud and then brought in all the other doctors & nurses, a video camera and 2 other patients to laugh at me (ok, with me as I was laughing really hard).

Verdict = "Mallet Finger" or baseball finger, a ruptured tendon in my finger = possible SURGERY to repair the ruptured tendon. I will find out for sure on Tuesday as I was told to "immediately" see a hand surgeon ASAP. Surgery? Seriously? How embarrassing. Although on the internet it seems surgery is not the first option, but the doctor at the Instacare said surgery so we shall see (i sure hope the internet is right...it is like gospel right???).

I now have this lovely bandage and splint on until Tuesday which makes showering really fun and lets me get to tell my retarded story to everyone that sees me. Luckily it is my left pinky finger, which is probably my least important finger, but I have found in the last day that Heavenly Father created all fingers for a reason.

Until Tuesday when I get the real verdict......

GO COUGS!!

Yesterday I was privileged enough to sit in the Legacy seats at the BYU football game (Thanks MonaVie). These seats are like sitting courtside at a Jazz game. They feed you before (ribs, meat, everything possible), give you great seats and then feed you again at halftime & bring you ice cream in the 3rd quarter. Needless to say I ate alot!! My favorite was the fudge....they a whole table full of it and I LOVE fudge!!! Plus here is where my seats were....





It was great except for the finger (next entry) and BYU started their "quest for perfection" to go undefeated and a BCS bowl game.

The Half Marathon

The BIG half marathon was this past weekend. All of my months of training had come down to this day. I felt prepared and most of all ready for it to be over. Nicole & I woke up much, much too early to get on a bus & go running (4am!). Seriously, there must be something wrong with us. After boarding the bus we then waited for an hour in the freezing cold canyon for the race to start. Again, craziness.

Once the race started I was feeling good. I was doing well & was on track to beat my time from last year's half marathon.....by a good 10 minutes. Then came the last 3 miles where the following happened:

1. We exited the canyon and still had 3 miles to run.....so we ran around the Riverwoods for 3 miles. We kept running near the finish line and then turning around and running away from teh finish line. Not fun when you just want to be done.
2. There was no water station between mile 7.5 and mile 12. I needed water around mile 11 and literally had to stop because I couldn't breathe my mouth was so dry. This had never been a problem and I think mentally I really started freaking out that there was no water. It was a scary moment, but I'm glad I didn't pass out.

I crossed the finish line in 2:11 which is 3 minutes faster than last year (2:11), but I still felt I was doing much better than that before the last 3 miles.

I wouldn't really recommend the Provo River Trail Half Marathon. It was poorly organized and the course was not fun. Hobble Creek was much better (and much more downhill). This one was flat (except the first 2.5 miles) which is very boring!

Anyways, it is over and I may be retired from running (at least any distance over 6 miles). I am definitely retired for the next week....LOL!! Here is a picture of me & Nicole (post race, not our best photo!). Nicole is SPEEDY fast. She ran it 20 minutes faster than me (1:50). I can only dream of going that fast.

I was also happy that my parents came again to cheer me on. It was great to have someone cheering for you at the finish line!