Recap of the 20 miler and Misc.

I have no clue where to start, what to fill you in on first or just dump my phone pictures and let you piece the puzzle together yourself?  I'm almost opting for the latter, but I will save you some grief.....

Let's go in reverse, shall we?

Ignore my avg. mile time as I never paused or anything when we made our fuel stops or when we walked in the last .86 of the run.  I know, excuses, excuse.  I know we are not fast, but the entire time we were running we kept under a 10 minute mile pace.  

Sunday was EPIC.  I mean, who in my life ever thought I would crank out 20 miles of running glory?  Especially when that was into a 16mph wind with gust between 20-25mph.  Not me.  It was a total recap of last years Marathoning for Miracles when we ran the Half.  Fortunately or not, the temp was pretty warm this week.  I think it hovered around 75 the entire 4 hours of running.  That's right folks, 3 hours and 59 minutes is what it took us to complete a WORKOUT!!!!!  The wind was the biggest killer of it all because we ran into it for the first 10 miles.  On a side note: we saw a total of 3 shooting stars while treking up the highway.  By mile 11/12 the sun finally started to peek out at us and we decided we liked running crosswise into the wind.  We were thankful for turning off our main road.  All in all, we took it easy.  We did not want to beat ourselves up, the wind did that for us....however, we managed to fuel properly and I think we will be golden in 2 weeks.  I am feeling great, a little sore, but I'm sure that is to be expected.  Going to church after that run was a bit challenging.  I was sore and sitting in the hard chairs in class did not make my rear happy.  Thanks to Ali Mc, I cannot keep from coming up with crazy poster ideas for my kids to hold up while I run the marathon.  She suggested someone have a, "Worst Parade Ever" sign for your family to hold up......Could not stop laughing....I know I'm strange.  I'm still working on other poster ideas that could keep your spirits up and the humor alive while traveling 26.2 miles.....that's a long time people.....a very long time.

Here is Hayden modeling the newest addition to our lighting effects while running.  Who needs ground effects, we have head effects?  To be honest, I think the lights on my head and the reflector vest T wears, scares the living daylights out of the people on the road.  We immediately know when they see us because they veer off across the highway to avoid taking us out.  Thank you for the kind people who do that.  Others I'm nervous about are the drivers who think driving towards the bright, reflective object, for better clarification is a good idea.  I almost come out of my shoes.  I don't know, maybe they think hitting a runner gets them bonus points?  I don't leave the light on, only when we are looking for our water bottles stashed along our route.  Well, and when we get on completely dark roads.

Saturday we went to my alma mater, ACU, homecoming parade.  The kids enjoyed seeing everyone dressed up and it was nice seeing some friends from school.  I can't believe I graduated from college 10 years ago!!! Ack!  I'm sorry to the friends I didn't get to catch up with.  I backed out of going to our reunion dinner because I had to get up early for the 20 miler......I did catch a great picture of my kids with their cousins.

Friday night we took the kids up to ACU for the carnival and fireworks and the kids had a blast.  Half way through, Mark took off to go support his younger cousin who plays highschool football.  Hayden went with him so they could have guys night.  I enjoyed hanging with my girls.  Oh yeah, somewhere in this weekend, Ella lost her 5th tooth....

Sorry for the scary up close photo.....I'm not in denial....this kid is going to need braces.....Wow.  Just like your parents......We're sorry for the bad teeth and eye genes.

Back to Saturday night, I worked on editing a slideshow/movie for Mark's press release we had today.  Which leads me to what our big project has been.......Actually, I think I'm going to have to do an entire post on that so.......you better stay tuned in!!!

Adios!