Ragnar....Will you ever return?

This month has brought back some great memories from a year ago.  Last year at this time, I was diligently preparing to run some 200 miles with my "crazy running friends".  I was pushing the miles on our Saturday morning runs.  I was running farther than I ever had before.  I had amazing will power to make my body reach beyond my goals and I was enjoying the company of wonderful friends. What happened?  Today I find myself barely able to complete a simple 3 miler.  My workouts are few and far between. I seem to have no will power to push through the pain and some of those wonderful friends are now running hundreds of miles away from here.  Such sadness!  

Oh Ragnar...Will you ever return?  Will we ever have the chance to re-unite those ladies who are "running from the kids"?  Will I ever get another chance to run, drive, sleep, repeat?  

Oh please, Ragnar...return...Texas is waiting!

And we are off!

-- Post From My iPhone

Knock Knock... Is any one here?

Guess what I saw today?  

Any Guesses?

They posted the dates!  Mark your calenders ladies it is happening again this year on October 16 & 17!  

I know it is a ways off but that really made my day a happy day!  Now I think after all the fun we had last year everyone wants in.  How do we feel about making a second team too?  Keep our initial team together?  Just thought I would start the discussion so if we got talking about it with people we would know what to say if they want to join in the craziness!!!!

From Shelley

Cool, spooky tree...Lindsay on the go...

Mary after a hard run! But, look at that smile!

More pics of a great weekend!!!!

What does an amazingly good 29 hours and 38 minutes consist of?

A very well made list that has been made, remade, cross checked and emailed to 10 more friends...

Thank you for being as crazy as me gift boxes :)...

Fabulous "party favors"

A beautiful setting... all be it a little hilly shall we say...

Two 12 passenger vans crammed full of way too many things, but what if we need that kitchen sink!!!!

some great art skills, and some perfect friends

And of course a beauty queen wave or two  :)

Our party favors in action....

Some quite stellar hand offs of the slap bracelet (we are all girls of course we know how to share jewelry flawlessly) 

Some passing waves...

A few new friends....

some favorites for the birthday girl all wrapped into one 

Those hills took us all the way to the north 40...

of course 29 perfect hours would include a birthday cake on fire at the end of your first leg...

Catching a few zzzzz's in any pretzel type shape you can get yourself into...

A van with a few extra large but very fashionable purses....

A friend willing to drive her 10 craziest running friends the long way from San Antonio to Austin

Some headlamps, LED's, reflective vests

a few too many of these.... 

Blogging from the road of course....

Pure joy in our smiles after our last legs

Only one missed turn sign while dodging the car trying to hit her and 1 whole extra mile straight up another hill....

a finish line that cam 180ish miles later

it has to include a cattle incident form.... 

laughs at how many girls does it take to wash off the windows?.... 

and pulling into the driveway at 11:48 pm saturday night to this....

Great job to all of you moms!  Thank you for giving me the best 29 and a half hours I have had in a while!  See you all same time and place next year?  I will be there!  and we can be 'Still running from the kids!'