One Foot After Another (At least I hope so): It’s been awhile….

The past year has been a blur for me because so much has been happening in life and in running. Let me catch you up:

I ran the Peachtree Road Race last July Fourth. It had over 55,000 of my favorite friends there. It was a fun race because I had my Dad to keep me company at the start and I had my mom at the finish line waiting for me. Thing to remember if you ever do this race, show up late I mean really late. It took me an hour and half to get to the start line. I could have slept in and still finished before the course closed. I also got to spend Fourth of July with the Shamp Family.

My cutie pie niece turned one-she now chats regularly, eats everything with ketchup, kisses everyone good night including the puppies-Hailey, Jacey and Pooka and loves her Daddy (and Mommy too).

I ran the Virginia Beach Rock-n-Roll Half on Labor Day-my birthday weekend. It was the absolute best. My good ole’ buddy Lindsey and I had backstage concert passes and VIP start line and finish line passes including premium bathrooms and goodies. It was a great weekend to be at the beach.

As part of my dedication to Team in Training and my dear friendship that I have with my mentor-Jenn Z, I put myself up on the block for a date auction. Met an awesome guy and rest is history. He too runs with Team in Training except he is super fast with his ninja socks and I run with the turtles

I ventured out west with Wild Crazy Bill and my long time pal Amber in her mode of transportation: Debbie Dangerous, the Ford Taurus. We hit home runs with the Rockies and Tulo , we scaled up the Grand Tentons in record time, camped out with bears and moose, visited the largest potato known to mankind in Idaho, drank coffee with Donald Miller in Portland , saw the Pacific Coast and slept in a YURT, went across the longest bridge of my life, had more coffee at Pike’s Place in Seattle