Monthly Archives: January 2009

africa

My thoughts have been in Africa lately.  I have been thinking about my friends, and the people that have crossed my paths the last two years as I traveled E. Africa.  I have also been drawn into a thought life about what we have here in America, and what the least of these around the [...]

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rest

Its been a restful week for me.  After 20 weeks of marathon training, 6 weeks of holiday stuff, I finally had a week to get back into the routine.  We did have a great post race party last night with entire Chances Team, and of course my radio is tuned in to sports talk to hear [...]

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marathon complete!

Its done, its over, check that one off the bucket list.  I have run my first marathon, and I finished. It was an amazing day, and i got to spend it with some amazing people.  I believe that every Team Chances runner finished their race yesterday. Congradulations to all my Team Chances team mates. 
Yesterday was not my [...]

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less than 48 hours

In just under 48 hours we will toe it up at the start line for the PF Changs Rock and Roll Marathon.  It appears that our training plan was perfect, my body feels great, most of the aches and pains that I have had over the last 20 weeks have gone away, and I am [...]

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twitter

I am going begin to twitter daily.  Check it out!

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8 days and counting

In 8 days we will lace em up and pound out 26.2 through the streets of phoenix.  I am starting to get excited for the race, and because of the cut back on our millage, I am staring to feel a bit antsy.  Wanting to go out and run even when its not on the [...]

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team chances shoe give away

I had the opportunity to join some of my team chances mates at Franks School in Guadalupe this morning.  We were there to give away almost 600 pairs of brand new Nike running shoes to the kids.  These children have also been running with the team every Thursday and many will do the kid run [...]

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12 days!

Hard to believe the race is only 12 days away.  Im just about 100% healthy and fit as I am going be.  Looking forward to this last week of practice with the team. Below is a video I found from a couple of years ago.  its gives you a good taste of what we will [...]

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