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A Weekend on the Sidelines

I spent most of the last weekend on the sidelines and loved it. I'll be doing more of the same this weekend at Ironman Florida. Maybe I'm better at being a cheerleader than a competitor.

Saturday morning Shellie, LaErica, and I ran 8 miles and ended up at the start/finish line downtown of the Pumpkin Run 5k. It was fun to watch and there were quite a few people in costumes. Most memorable was the guy dressed as Mark Spitz wearing a wig, mustache, medals, a speedo, and flip flops. Augie, Jon, and Jen all had an awesome race too. Augie won her age group, Jon got second in his, and Jen got a PR. The only downside to running to watch a race means you get pretty cold before it is all said and done. I was blue for about an hour, but soy hot chocolate at Onion Creek afterwards took care of that.

Saturday afternoon, Shellie and I visited the sidelines of Lisa's house...or more like we dove straight into the war zone! Sarah and Jessica have grown a lot since I saw them last and they definitely move around a lot more. Lisa seems to be doing great and I'm amazed at what awesome parents she and Jeff are.

Shellie and Jessica
Saturday night a few of us had a much-needed girls dinner and then headed "out" for a while. Yup, I am still a Grandma. All Saturday night did was ensure that I certainly have not gotten any younger recently. I try, but it just doesn't work.

Sunday morning a group of us headed out to watch the Houston Half Marathon. I had originally planned to run this, but cheering was a much better idea. The course is 3 boring loops on Allen Parkway. Well, boring for the runners, but awesome for us. We sat in the middle and saw everyone six times. The first 3 or so times that people ran by me, I had a chocolate donut in my hand. Everyone wanted my donut! We saw tooooons of people we knew and really had a great time cheering everyone on. I think we were all glad we were in lawn chairs with Starbucks instead of running.

We stayed until the very end and I am glad we did. There weren't many people left cheering when the last few runners/walkers were coming through, and they were so appreciative of us when we cheered for them. We also watched a blind runner, Eveling, finish her first half marathon. I had seen Eveling several times during the summer at Houston Fit Fall group runs, but had never spoken to her. I was just always amazed and also curious about her. She and her guide were the last people we watched go by on Sunday and she was grinning from ear-to-ear every time we saw her. I am so happy that she posted on the HFit discussion board so I was finally able to get to know a little more about her. Her story is here. She truly is an inspiration, and very funny too!

More pictures from the race are here.

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Jessica, a Austin Runner AND triathlete said…
that was YOU with the donuts?! sorry i missed them! maybe next time.

miss ya,
Jessica
November 17, 2008 at 12:36 PM
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