Kathleen's Adventures

I do not think I can even begin to do this story justice, but I have to share it.  As I sit here trying to describe it, all I find are tears - no words.  Tears for a family I have never met.  A pain in my heart for a family I will most likely never know.  I'm finding it unbelievable that Sarah is gone.  Less than a week ago she was video blogging, happy to be home from the hospital.  I'm not sure if anyone knew how soon she would be going to her eternal home.  I can say, without doubt, that I have never known someone so full of grace, faith, and courage as Sarah.  Even in the darkest moments, she always had her eyes and heart on the bigger picture, on God's plan for her.  She led thousands of blog followers through her battle over the last several months.  She showed sheer humility in the presence of the Lord and taught us all far more than we ever expected. Below is the blog post Sarah's husband, Eric, posted early Monday mornin...

I woke up yesterday morning to as close to a winter wonderland as we get in Texas.  I was thrilled.  I could not wait to go on a trail run with the fresh snow.  I've never run on snow before (in, but not on).  It is times like this it is beyond convenient I live on trails because I would not have driven anywhere to run, but was able to get to the trails on foot. I was talking to my mom on the phone on my way through my apartment complex to the trails.  She was telling me I was crazy to go run and that it would be slippery and bad.  I kept telling her I'd be fine, but kept having little squeals here and there.  What hadn't occurred to me was how hard it was going to be to actually get to the trail!  It is maybe 200-400 yds from my apartment through the parking lot/apartment drive to the trail head.  Um...it was completely frozen!  I walked up on the grass where I could because that was just snow, no ice, but the pavement was frozen soli...

A few years ago, I started making playlists for my big running races.  These playlists are very carefully put together and are the length of the time I want to finish the race in.  So then my goal is to beat my playlist.  The lists always end with Journey's "Don't Stop Believin.'"  I haven't made a list to beat in a long long time, possibly as many as 2.5 years because I have not been healthy enough to shoot for a PR since then.  Last week began the task of making my playlist.  I kept a list and sent myself reminders whenever I thought of more songs that would be good to have on it.  This list ended up having 60 songs, and being 4.2 hours long.  I'm annoyed because windows media player used to give you exact time, but now it only gives you tenths of an hour.  That really bothers us ocd types, but I just let it be because 4.2 hours was definitely a PR, I just wasn't sure exactly how long...was it really 4.16 hours, or 4.24 hours?...