Team Waiting for Runs

Texas Independence Relay Info

The Texas Independence Relay is composed of 40 relay legs of various lengths, totaling over 200 miles. The course starts in Gonzales, TX, where the Texas Revolution began, and it finishes at the San Jacinto Monument, where Texas Independence was won!

The relay will run from March 7th - 8th.

8 original Waiting for Runs Relay members will be returning (we will miss abelisle, the Foos, & Mystery runner)

This time, we will up the challenge and have 9 runners in a luxurious 15 passenger van. This means no resting time for the 2nd van.

Keep an eye out here for updated info and up to the minute updates.

Saturday, April 19, 2008

Wow, so cool! It was great to finally be able to start running after the excitement of the day. My turn! Beautiful run with vineyards on the side. Felt great and had to work to not start off too fast. For the majority of the run, there was a cold, strong headwind - sometimes it felt like I was running and not making much forward motion. The cold is not a problem as I warm up quickly, but the headwind was the strongest I've run in. Saw another runner far in the distance and decided to try to catch him. It took a while, but I caught him and passed him with a mile to go. It was such a fun run and I finished minutes faster than my anticipated time. Yeah! This has been an awesome experience. The distance on my leg was 5.6 miles and the iPod showed 5.63 miles. How's that for accuracy! Next leg will be about 4 am in it will be cold!

2 comments:

Kristen Kimball said...: great job!!! ben says hi!; April 19, 2008 at 10:31 PM
Chi-ber-i-bi said...: Awesome! I can't imagine that you are running again at 4:00 a.m.
Keep it up!
P.S. What is up with the road kill thing?; April 20, 2008 at 7:37 AM