Hello All

Once again, its been a while. I have been doing the same things as always. Work during the day, go home and eat, sit around for a minute and go to sleep. Wake up and do it again, and again, and again, and again, and again...you get the picture. My twin sister is about to have her baby. She is due on October 7this. However, she is already having contractions and we think little Annie will probably arrive early. Which is funny because my family is notoriously late. I have been training for a couple months for the Arkansas Traveller 100 Mile Foot Race. It is getting very close to arrival. It starts Saturday October 4th at 6:00am. Hopefully I will finish some time before the 30 hour cut off. I ran in a training run which covered around 45-50 miles of the course. I talked to a lot of runners who had completed the race in the past. They all gave me their horror stories as well as their tricks and tips. The general consensus among all of the runners was that 1) I will be in tremendous pain by the end of the race, 2) I will go through highs and lows & 3) I will probably have to fight the urge to drop out of the race at one or more times. However, they all said just to keep moving forward, keep thinking positive and you will finish. Hmmmmm.....its gonna be interesting. I have Patrick as my pacer for the later section of the race and Claire and Holly for my crew. They will be driving around all night in the Trail Blazer from crew point to crew point. Other potential people that will be coming include Anne Marie and possibly Vinnie. Even if I don't finish, I think we will have a good time. I have one more back to back long run before the race. I will be running 30 tomorrow and 25 on Saturday. From then on it will be average and short runs. I will try to keep you posted on a more frequent basis. Yall have fun. Happy Trails!!!