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Brick for Women

I've been looking forward to this weekend for a while now and I'm excited it is finally (almost) here. On Sunday I will be biking 100 miles with Rick Hood as part of his Brick for Women. Rick beats me on the "crazy" scale as he is biking over 500 miles to Little Rock, beginning Sunday, to run the Little Rock Marathon next Sunday. He is doing this brick (brick usually means a workout where you bike and then you run right afterwards) to raise money for the Women's Shelters in both Houston and Little Rock. How cool/crazy is that?

Sunday we will take a very "off the beaten path" route to Livingston to complete day 1 of his adventure. However, we are all hopping in a car after that and heading back to Houston! You can follow some of the adventure here at Rick's blog. He has Day 1 all planned out and it looks like it is going to be lots of fun. We are pulling out from the Houston Women's Shelter on Westheimer near Montrose at 8am Sunday morning. Send-off festivities will begin around 7 if anyone wants to join the fun! I'm excited about riding through the city as I rarely get to do it. Usually it isn't exactly safe, but with 6 big guys around me, I should be good to go. I have recruited a hand full of the group training for IMAZ to go with us and I am excited again to have a "team training event."

One important note to self: there has been all sorts of talk about a cold beer at the finish. However, if my memory serves me correctly, Livingston is DRY! The huge alcoholic that I am who may have half a beer to "celebrate" needs to make sure I pack some beer in the "Patty Wagon" before we go. (Patty Wagon = Rick's girlfriend's car)

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