We're going to Rock N Roll in San Antonio for 26.2 miles tomorrow. We've arrived, and are excited about the event ahead of us. On the drive, Dan asked if I was nervous, and quite honestly I was not. As soon as we got to San Antonio, though, I turned to him and said "okay, now I'm getting a bit nervous, we're actually here!" So...my nerves are getting a bit of an exercise, but hopefully I'll be able to get a good night's rest. We made it here about 3 in the afternoon, met our friends at the hotel, and made it to the expo to pick up our race packet and number. By the way, we also changed our corral number. We decided we'd be better off starting earlier than later, so we will be starting in Corral #7 rather than #16. We figured that if corrals were released every 1:30 to 2 mins, we wouldn't actually start until about 8 in corral #16...that's just too much time to just stand around and get cold. SO, while we probably won't be finishing in the 3hrs 59mins, we are starting in that group. Please pray that we will have the discipline to pace ourselves reasonably and not let the "herd" (after all we ARE in corrals :) ) dictate our initial pace. We certainly don't want to burn out early into the race (at all, for that matter). We also went to the TNT pasta dinner to carb load for tomorrow. We listened to several speakers, one of which was a personal account of battling blood cancer that had a sad ending. SO, we were reminded, once again, why we are running this race. We are running for all those battling blood cancers; that research will provide a cure and a hope for a happy future. We are running this for our daughter, Katherine. May the Lord continue to bless her and our family with the strength and endurance to continue this fight with Leukemia, day in and day out. Okay, it's late and we better hit the sack so we can be up and out of the hotel by 5:30 in the morning.
Again, you can track us online. Here is the info that you will need.
The website: http://www.rnrsa.com/
Our runner numbers: Dan #16066 Marleny #16149
5 comments:
Good Luck and have fun.
We're praying for you guys.
Jason & Liliam
oh yeah, I ran my second 10k today. Knocked 8 minutes off my last time, but still not as good as I would have liked.
Great job!! It was fun checking on you before church and again after. Our thoughts and prayers have been with you.
Way to go! We were with you the whole way (in spirit anyway).
congrats on completing the run. Love the photographer story. We will Kateli for our next family photo shoot.
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