Gunderson Adventures....

  Caleb James  So much fun celebrating his senior season of football last week. It was such a fun season for him and so many memories were made.  The Senior Offensive line. Senior poster of our Bubba! Caleb is such a hard worker and loyal to his team. He loved putting in hours of hard work and being with the guys. His consistent dedication throughout high school really helped him grow into such an awesome guy. His heart for God and doing ALL things for the glory of Christ was incredible to see too. Caleb, you are such an incredible athlete, but more importantly your heart for working hard and prioritizing the best things shines brighter!  Very very proud of you. Mom

  I am starting on 4 weeks now into this journey of healing.... and I have found some new systems that are working to help keep my body moving but also giving my stress fracture time to recover. It took me a little time to get adjusted to doing new activities after coming off such high running miles. I'll be back to running again, but for now these New Systems are in place! 1- Sleep. I have been sleeping a lot. At least 8-9hours a night. Giving my body true rest has been helping.  2- Swimming. 3-4 times a week. I like swimming laps way better then aqua jogging! 3- Walking. Not for exercise quite yet, but for movement. It has been so pretty outside lately, and I am really enjoying just strolling the neighborhood or trails and getting needed fresh air. 4- Upper body work!+core Lifting my upper body at the gym a few days a week. 5- yoga- just added this back in and it is helping a lot with mobility. I am trying to enjoy the rest and beauty around me doing new things, but it still...

femur injury-    Sharing the best of what I and the boys and Kyle remember...the tubing rope was under my leg and the boys were going tubing... the rope pulled tight and somehow wrapped around my leg sending me into the air doing a complete 360 "summersault" in the air... Micah said my head was coming towards the back seat of the boat and he pushed my head down so my body wouldn't crash into the back of the boat helping it turn so I landed on my butt back into the boat on the boat floor.  Kyle stopped the boat, and as I stood up, I just felt confused like a concussion feeling, but overall pretty good despite the rope burn around my leg. I remember going to the back of the boat to cry it out a minute because I was really scared.  We moved on that day thankful I was alright and only had a scar to show for it...  I went back to running and racing like normal, until about 6 weeks later my hip was giving me some trouble on my daily runs. The more I ran, the worse my ...

  A New Chapter begins.... as I wrap my mind around finding out I have a moderate- grade stress reaction of the proximal femur, bone marrow and periosteal edema is present in the upper femoral shaft. There was no stress fracture identified however the imaging they took didn't extend the full length of my femur to fully know 100%... and the truth is the recovery time on either a reaction or fracture is very extensive and so I will wait to get further imaging done by MRI on Jan 4th, 2027 to check on the progression of my healing.  So as I learn to move my body in new ways, given a strict swimming only option at this time and upper body/core work, I will share with you how this process is going on a week-to-week basis. Thankful to not be on crutches, but devastated by the extent of the injury and recovery time I was given.   As many of you know, I am a highly motivated person and believe in the importance of having daily consistent systems in place. So as I begin this n...

  Caleb's Senior Season! Thankfully getting a few wins on the season, which has been fun!!! Next week is Homecoming and looking forward to another WIN!!! We love watching you play!  WINS vs   Rice Lake vs Superior Next week vs Wisconsin Rapids for Homecoming

  My morning runs have been very quiet, and very pretty! It has been a really good summer, and I am still squeezing every moment of warm sunshine I can. The red cedar trail has been a fave running spot and should prepare me well for my next marathon at Whistlestop! I am only 9 weeks away and I am really enjoying all the training that comes with training for a marathon. Sometimes I wonder if I enjoy the training and preparing more than the actual race hehehe...not really I do love racing...  This was my highlight photo from last week!  So so love it!!!