Think of Us

LISA:

Tomorrow we run 20 miles.

When you’re on your way to work or are taking the kids to school, think of us.  Feel free to say a little prayer for us.  Safety is always a good thing to pray for.  Running 20 miles in a town where 40,000 college students live and DRIVE can be dangerous.     

When you’re on your second or third (or maybe fourth) cup of coffee tomorrow, think of us.  We will STILL be out there running.  Feel free to say another prayer for us.  Health is a good thing to pray for.  We need our bodies to stay injury free as we continue on our road to Boston. 

When you go to lunch (that is if you’re more of an early luncher than a late luncher) think of us.  We should be just about finished.  Another prayer would be much appreciated… a prayer of thanks that God got us through all the miles. 

Tomorrow we run 20 miles and we are EXCITED you will be thinking of us and praying for us along the way!

(Below is a flyer Niki and I received last Spring.  We ran the Tyler Rose Marathon in October 2010 as a training run for the Dallas White Rock Marathon. Afterwards, as we like to do, we were hamming it up for the race photographer.  To our surprise, they used our photo for their promo flyer for their 2011 race!)  

3M Half Marathon

NIKI:
For long run #5 we headed to Austin to run the 3M 1/2 marathon.  We arrived in Austin on Saturday afternoon (L and I coach our daughters' City Rec basketball team and we had to squeeze in a practice before we left town).   We went by the race expo to pick up our running packets then headed to my sister-in-law Madelyn's house (where we decided to channel our middle school days when you and your friends decide to dress alike on certain days of the week and we all wore hats).   Next was on to Macaroni Grill for dinner (thanks Texas Beef Council). We ended our day back at Mad's for nighty-night.  Sunday was up and out early for our 6:45am race start.  Lisa and I needed to get 16 miles in on this run so after crossing the finish line we added on 3 more miles.  God blessed us with beautiful weather, travel safeties, meaningful conversations and pretty good run times.  I want to send a thanks to Madelyn for hosting us and driving us around this weekend...love you Mad!  Check out the attached pics and our first post-run video clip!