What's a Gee?

Once upon a time in a land far far far away, the land of the warm wind known as Chinook, MT..... the youngest of the Luckett family was born.  

This is Montana, Chinook is located north-central on the 'HiLine'.... almost in Canada

The three older sisters were in the care of Great Aunt Josephine, waiting until they could meet their new sibling.  Debbie, age 5, Andrea, age 4, and Jennifer, nearly age 3, just couldn't wait any longer.  While Aunt Josephine was sleeping, they snuck out with their suitcase in search of the new baby.  Fortunately, they did not encounter any dragons or monsters and their father found them and they were brought to see the baby.  Now it was highly anticipated that the fourth Luckett should be the male heir, alas the babe was a girl.  This was not the first time this child would be known as 'difficult'.  As there was no girl names chosen in preparation, she would then be named after her great-grandma Carolyn (Caroline) Miller.

The name Carolyn was a challenge for little Jennifer.  The most deciferable word heard when Jennifer beckoned her baby sister was "gee-won".  All the grandpas and grandmas and sisters and parents from then on so affectionally referred to her as "gee-won".  As she grew up, friends followed suit and also called her gee-won more often than her given name.  In the far far far away land of Chinook, it can be said that most of the townspeople called her gee-won.  

One day as she was learning to write her name, the question was asked....."how do you spell gee-won".  It was decided that the name in which Carolyn was so affectionally referred to, shall be spelled Gee 1.  However, when Gee 1 carved her name into her mother's piano bench, she wrote in cursive Carolyn Luckett.....deeply in red ink.

As the girl aged she never seemed to be affected by the oddity of this name.  It was so frequently used that a new teenage friend (Juli, 8th grade) once told her parents that she was going to the movies with Carolyn.  Juli's parents thought she was talking about Gee 1's older sister, they were too polite to query as to why the Lucketts would name their daughter such an unusual name (after all they were from Montana and not Utah).

Gee 1 grew up, became a nurse, moved away from the land far far far away and ended up in Utah.  Even though the people of Utah are known to give their children odd names, Gee 1 has not seen a replica of her name in all the babies at Primary Childrens.  The people did not know the secret of her past, however it still gives her a warm feeling to hear the calling of Gee.  When she became an aunt, she taught her nieces and nephew to call her auntie Gee 1.

 Beaming Auntie Gee  with Maria & Isabel

In the year 2008, when Gee 1 was deep in training for her Grand Slam of Ultra running quest, her sweet but sarcastic daughter teased her with comments such as "ruuuunnnn Forrest ruuuuunnnnn".   The idea of a Blog intended to document this significant event in Carolyn's/Gee 1's life came to be.   And, in the spirit of her life's Gumpish-like strange encounters, this Blog shall therefore be named RunGeeRun.

And she ran happily ever after.....but we know that is not the end!

Sorry about the delay in this posting.  I am recovering well from Bishop and keeping up the training for Squaw Peak.  It is just amazing that I am still post-holing thru snow as low as 7500 ft.  Cross-training for the week is painting my kitchen, believe it or not but you can do lots of squats when painting.