THE PF CHANGS MARATHON!

Are you kidding me! I ran a stinking marathon! It was nuts! Definitely something that I will never forget! it hurt but sooooooo worth it! The night before the race we went to the Runner Expo and I LOVED IT! Everything that had to do with running was there, my kind of heaven.
The morning of the race, nerves started getting to me , luckily my family was there at the start line to calm me down!
Standing in the middle of 6,000 people at the start, the gun fired and we were off! For the first 10 miles, I was averaging a 7:50 min/mile pace talking to the runners that were around me...seriously so much fun! I slowed down to 8:06 min mile and held that until mile 20 and WHAAAAM! I hit a BIG wall at mile 20! I saw Nate at the mile marker and just started to cry, I had been running for 3 hours and knew that I still had another hour to go! My feet were hurting because I had developed knots on the tops of my feet, and my hamstrings were cramping like crazy, but knowing that if I stopped my body would instantly cramp and I wouldnt be able to finish. I slowed waaaay down to 9 min mile. When I saw the finish line and all my wonderful friends and family cheering me on it was the most incredible feeling! I finished in 3 hrs and 52 min.
One thing that I didnt know about my body was that once it has been running for a long period of time, and then it comes racing to a dead stop, i get nausous and queezy and everything that I ate that day and the day before came spewing out! The entire rest of the day I felt MISERABLE! But I do have to say that it was well worth it. I cant wait until that next marathon!
Since my brother is still out on his mission, I made a video for him with all the pics that I took from the marathon and Nate surprised me and put it on youtube! SO enjoy. If you go to www.youtube.com and type in Tashina Birch it will pull up. Sorry these pics are out of order!

Run From The Sun Half Marathon!

This race was a very special race, one that I will cherish for a long time. The entire Birch ran this run in memory of Nates father who passed away from skin cancer. It was great seeing all the family get together for a great cause.
I felt good during the run, I hit a wall around mile 10, it was hard but felt great when I was finished! It rained from mile 5 -13! I finished with my personal best 1hour and 45 min! I cant wait until next year!

Christmas 2009

Alright here I go...
Well Christmas is a GREAT time of the year and this last christmas was no exception! We had the Famous Christmas Eve Santa gathering with the Birch family. Santa brought us our christmas PJ's...awesome!
Nate and I have the missionaries over atleast once a week, so we asked them to join us and luckily walmart was open to get them some of their very own ASU pajamas!
Christmas morning we got the oppurtunity to speak to my brother who has been out on his mission for the past year and it was so refreshing to actually talk to him! - one more year to go!
Few Pics of that night!

I'M ALIVE!

So sorry that I havent updated in awhile....okay, a LOOOONG while! :) I will soon, with pics and all! Just wanted to let you guys (anyone that still might read my sorry excuse for blog!) know that I made it through the holidays, through the Multiple races, and EVERYTHING in general! ;)
Update is coming soon I promise!