I had the great opportunity to run in the funnest race I have ever done!! Corinne asked if I would take a girls place who dropped out and I agreed...Thanks girl I had a blast. We laughed so much and worked so hard together. This really is such an amazing team effort. While I was running my 1st leg which was my hardest one. 71/2 miles at 100 degrees going up a dirt mountain with rocks and gravel and dust all over. I had some meaningful thoughts I will share while I was struggling up this hill.... I learned that if I looked to far ahead of myself I would get very discouraged because the hill was so long and steep, but if I just looked right ahead of myself and focused on the steps I was taking at the moment it wasn't so bad and before I knew it I had concurred the whole mountain. I feel like this in my life, when I worry about the road to far ahead of me I can become very discouraged, but when I focus on just taking the little steps everyday and enjoying every moment I have it makes life so much fun and so much more bearable. Then while I was running I felt like walking a few times, but then up ahead I would see my car with these wonderful friends hanging out the windows cheering me on and encouraging me to keep going. Every once in awhile someone would see that I needed a drink and would get out and run with me bringing me water and sponging me down. I would soon feel so much more energy. This helped me so much and I thought to myself how important it is in our lives to have a good support system. Family and friends who when life gets hard and you want to stop running they are there to sponge you down and give you a drink and let you know you are doing great. I can't tell you how blessed I feel every day to have a family who is so supportive of me. I husband that is constantly giving me the water of love and energy and support that keeps me going. A mother that is there for me no matter what. A father that is wise and kind and loves me so much. Children that are a fountain of love in my life. And friends that I love so much that have put up with me so much and offer their love and service all the time in my life. I am overwhelmed with joy when I think of all that I am blessed with in this life and most of it is relationships.
Here are a few fun pics of our race....Enjoy
Kelli and Nicole getting my car ready!! I spent 100.00 dollars getting it detailed the day before!! Big mistake, it was sooo dirty when we were done spending 24 hours in it together with 6 women.


Our name was...Legs, breasts, wings. It was fun driving around all day with a bra on my car and legs hanging off the back. What a fun day this was!!
This is Corinne, me, Kelli, Amy and Jacosa. We are trailing our runner. She ran by us while we were taking pictures!! oops.
This was our whole team. Apparently we took 3rd place in our division!!! Way to go ladies. We even got lost for 40 minutes at 4:00 A.M.
It is amazing how you can get to know people so well and end up loving them after just 24 hours in a car together. I had so much fun learning about these ladies, they were so fun and just really neat, good women.