Update

Mom is doing much better. She walked about 100 feet today, been off the ventilator all day, and can eat certain foods by mouth now. Thanks for all your prayers. Runs are coming back. Two five milers so far this week. Registered for the Midsouth Marathon, in Wynne, today. Still uncertain on Columbus.

Mom

Up in Columbus,Ohio this week. Mom is in the hospital. She's having a rough go at it this time. Running put on hold this week. Prayers for Mom please.

Spring Break

Just ended Spring Break with a 12 mile run. Maintained an 8:23 pace. Spent the weekend at a cabin in Crowley's Ridge State Park with Deb and Amy. We had a blast. Did some hiking on their trails. Rode out the thunderstorms that rolled through on Saturday night. Cooked out, and just had a great time. Can't wait to do it all again. Going to try a different park next time. :) Still on track with my maintenance training. June will be the start of my training for my end of the year goal with three marathons in three months.

Fall Races

Ok, I've set out to really challenge myself this fall. You already know I have plans to run the Columbus Marathon in October. That will be Oct 17th. My buddy, Barrett, has already signed up to run the Midsouth Marathon here in Wynne, in November. I promised him that I would run that one with him. Let's go for the Hat Trick. Making plans to run the St Jude's Marathon, in Memphis, in December. Three marathons in three months. That is my goal. I'll keep you posted on it as it all draws near.

Maintaining

Still fighting my cold but, still getting my runs in. Got in 20 miles this week. Taking next week off from work to spend spring break with the girls. Might spend a night or two in a cabin. Deb is picking up on her runs. Maybe I can convince her to run a 5k with me. Of course she'd blow me away. She's a speedster. :) Well, no big races until the Columbus Marathon in October. Going home for this one. Looking forward to having my folks out there.

This whole weather change stuff sucks. Fighting a cold really hampers my run time. Maybe some nyquil and a day of sleeping will help.

Little Rock

Well, eight days after running the full marathon at Cowtown, three of my SORT Brothers and I took on the marathon relay challenge at Little Rock. Got there Saturday (3/6) and checked into our hotel in Crackville! Barrett, you are no longer in charge of hotel finding! LOL! Went to the expo and found my cousin, Bob. Haven't seen him in over 30 years. Funny, I remember him being a lot taller. :) It was great spending time with him and catching up a little. Well, we arrived at the marathon on Sunday. Brent ran the first leg (6.2 miles). I had the second leg (6.9 miles). After running the weekend before, I sure felt every step of this run. Got to the relay point and handed off to Barrett. He had the most grueling part of the run. 7.8 miles of nothing but uphill. Glad it was him and not me!! The last leg was Eric's part (5.3 miles) We finished with a time of 3 hrs and 39 mins. I'm told that is gun time so, we're still waiting on the official results. As it stands right now, we took first place in the Law Enforcement/Military division, and 15th out of 200 relay teams overall. Not bad for our first time running a marathon relay. We celebrated with a beer and lunch while hanging out with my cousin at the Flying Saucer right by the start line. The rest of the team seems to have the bug and want to return next year to defend our title. :) Next big race will be the Columbus Marathon in October. Going home for this one. It was awesome seeing my cousin out here and looking forward to actually running a full marathon with him. He's got me motivated to work on the 50 marathons in 50 states.