Run Lil' Mama Run: A Weekend In Vegas

We had quite the adventure this weekend. We went to Las Vegas for Kobe’s gymnastics competition, the Black Jack meet for the youngies and the World Cup Competition for the Elites.

Friday morning Jorge, Holly and I woke up to run the strip. I much prefer the strip at 5:30 am than any other time. Other than a few drunks we were the only ones on the strip and it was glorious.

We were all rocking our Pro Compression socks, 2 low cutters and a marathon socker.

The strip was still all a glow, it was awesome. The stairs we had to run up and down added a little something extra to our workout, hard core par kour!

We didn’t have much time so we busted out 7.15 miles and then it was time for me to get back for Kobe’s competition.

As I was walking to the meet I saw a guy sitting on the floor, I knew he was an Olympian but I wasn’t sure of his name. I almost turned around to get his picture but decided not to. I looked at Jake Dalton’s Instagram page to see if I could figure out who I had seen, it was Brandon Wynn. As I sat there kicking myself for not going back I saw him sitting off to the side of where we were. Jake made me get a picture with him. I put my arm around him and HOLY CRAP, that boy is solid muscle.

I even caught him with his shirt off, you're welcome. His muscles have muscles!

We also saw Danell Leyva

One of Kobe’s coaches, Coach Wan Wan (Wanda) used to coach Jake Dalton. She set up a meet and greet with Jake and Steve Legendre. Steve was so nice and told Kobe he had awesome muscles, his weren’t too bad either…holy biceps.

Kenna decided to skip Kobe’s meet to hang out with the Garcia’s, little did she know she was going to miss the meet and greet. McKenna missed out on her one opportunity to meet her “future husband” as she would say.

Jake and Steve signed Kobe's bib

As we were waiting for our turn to see Jake I realized that no other moms were getting their pictures taken, I tried to get another mom to go with me but she wouldn’t. I decided I didn’t care what people thought and I was getting a picture. I may or may not have accidentally touched his butt, cute bum where ya from ;D As Jake Dalton had his arm around me for the picture Jake, my Jake, said “Jake is Steph’s dream guy!” Seriously!!! I was so embarrassed, you should have seen the look he gave me after that…oh well.

I had to get in a picture with Steve too.

The Black Jack meet is a big one with teams from all over. There were kids from Utah, California, Canada and who knows where else. To place at one of these meets is a pretty big deal. Kobe did awesome! He got an 11.000 on high bar which was good enough for 1^st place. He got 6^th place on rings and 9^th all around. He is a pretty big deal :) to me at least!

As we were walking back to the room I noticed Brandon Wynn and a few other Olympians at the pool. We asked for a picture, they were all super willing and nice. The friendliest one was Justin Spring he competed in the 2008 Olympics. He said he almost named his son Kobe but they went with Cody instead. He was just a real swell guy.

Brandon Wynn, Joshua Dixon, not sure of his name, Donnell Whittenburg and Justin Spring.

Kenna found us just in time to get her picture taken with a couple of them.

After the meet we met up with the Fullmer’s at Pawn Star, as soon as we walked out Chumlee made an appearance, typical.

We had to go to my favorite pizza place, Grimaldi’s…delicious!

The Wynn Hotel

Saturday morning Jorge, Holly and I headed out for a 16 miler. We ran all the way down the strip, stairs and all then continued on until we hit 8 miles. We turned around and did it all again. If you want to spice up your long run, add numerous sets of stairs all along the way. We did 16 miles with an average pace of 8:15 which is pretty good considering all the stairs they will really throw your pace off.

Saturday was spent trying to find an open pool…we never did find one #fail. At least we had the World Cup Championships to look forward to.

We headed to the meet at 5:00 to watch the elites warm up and to save seats. The muscles on these guys blow me away, amazing!

Watching the Olympians and elite gymnasts was probably the coolest thing I have ever seen. We saw a couple of guys get injured, not so fun. Here is Steve Legendre doing rings, he ends up hurting his pec…watch for it.

That was the last we saw of him, so sad. It was cool to see Jake Dalton’s concern for his friend. He watched sadly as Steve walked away and then as soon as Jake was done he ran to his friend. Another guy blew his knee out, at least that’s what it looked like, and a guy broke his leg when he landed on vault.

At the end of the meet we got our pictures taken with a bunch of the gymnasts.

Chris Brooks who won the competition

Jonathan Horton, he didn't compete due to an injury.

Not sure of his name but he is awesome!

Holly and I LOVED watching this kid, he is only 15 and is amazing. I do believe his name is Davis, we are determined that he will be the next big thing in gymnastics.