Bayou City Classic 2009

Tommy, Tori, my sister, Gwen, and I walked/ran this fun, early, freezing cold and windy 10K this past Saturday. Jakeb was signed up for it but ended up with a better offer to go camping with a friend. It's the fourth time to do this race for me and probably the last for a few years. It's my favorite race and I finished it with a sense of pride and sadness. My right foot is injured so I hurt but weighing the pros and cons, I knew I couldn't bail. I also got to walk with Gwen on her first BCC and with Tori, my daughter, which is always a fulfilling experience.


Enjoy the pics! And maybe one of you might consider doing this race next year so I can live vicariously through you. :)

Tommy was sharing his tunes with Tori. Some banjo folk song with Chinese words. Yep, he's weird!

Yes, belly dancers! They are there every year. That alone should make you want to sign up.

I'm sure Tommy hates that I'm putting this one up but oh well. He should have posted first and I took the pictures so.... Isn't there a song about men in tights?

I think every Honda owner should put mirrors all over their car.

Texas Independance Relay 2009

Tommy and Jakeb left at about 3am to head to Gonzales, Texas where they will be running the Texas Independence Relay. It's a relay run from Gonzales to the San Jacinto monument. 203.20 miles total. The team starts the race together and finishes the last bit of it together. They'll finish on Sunday, late afternoon.

Jakeb and Tommy will each run 4 legs of the race and each leg is about 4 miles or so and at all hours of the day and night. The team of 11 (suppposed to have been 12) travels in three vans. They'll put their sweaty running clothes in a ziploc and wash off with wet wipes. Nice, huh??? They do get a brief stop at a hotel for about an hour or two nap and a shower.

Here's a link to the race updates if you want to follow. It's race specific, not team specific, but we might see an occasional picture or two of someone on their team. Their team name is The Battling Bloggers of the Texas Republic. Here's a fun interactive race map.

Tommy is running legs 9, 20, 26 & 40

Jakeb is running legs 8, 19, 29 & 38

Tommy did this last year but this will be Jakeb's first time to do a relay race. He had no trouble getting out of bed at 2 something this morning. Pray for their sense of reason to be in full working capacity (this is something I often worry about with the two boys), for their safety and health and for them to have a really good time! I think the last thing I told Tommy this morning when he was leaving was to not do anything that would give me a reason to worry. :) Like sleeping in an open field with wild animals. Yes, he did that last year.

I sent the camera with them. I hope to be able to put some pictures up on Monday.

Pray for Jason.....Pray for Segera

Jason Culverhouse has already begun his 100 mile run in Huntsville this morning. He should be finishing around mid day tomorrow. Please pray for him and all of the other runners out there this weekend. It's quite an undertaking, mentally and physically.

Jakeb and Tommy will be two of the fortunate ones to get to pace him at different legs of the race. Jakeb will be running with him around dark tonight for around 6-10 miles and Tommy will run with him in the wee hours of the morning for about the same mileage. Pray safety for all, clarity of mind, no injuries and most importantly, for support/sponsorship and awareness to be raised for the children of Segera and Kenya.

Our family is going and we are so excited to get to be a part of this. I'll be posting pictures when we get back.

Here's our original post on this for more information about Brightpoint and why Jason is running for two days.

Running for Segera

Next weekend our family is headed to Huntsville for an overnight camp out. Even though we LOVE camping, we probably wouldn't choose to camp in early February but my parents are loaning us their camper and a friend of ours is running 100 miles for a cause that we are head over heals in love with. He's running to raise money and awareness for the needs of the children of Segera in Kenya where our daughter went last summer and where she and our son will go this summer. Tommy explains in more detail why Jason is running this super-human race on his blog and how you can participate should you want to. So you can read the details here.

I'm anticipating incredible things to happen in Huntsville, Texas next weekend and I'm pumped that our family gets to be a part of it. Not to mention we're getting a cool t shirt!


These are the links for my facebook note in case they don't come through in the feed.

Tommy's blog: http://trechoagon.blogspot.com/2009/01/100-miles-for-children-of-segera.html

Brightpointe Ministries: http://www.brightpointforchildren.org/ (click on Jason/100)

Houston Half Marathon 2009

I know I said the posts would mostly be about Tori. This one includes Tori but I found the picture below and it spurred this post.

Our family is all about to take part in the Houston Marathon somehow. Anna is running in the kids run on Saturday, Tori and I (and my sister, Gwen) are walk/jogging the Half Marathon and Tommy and Jakeb (and my brother-in-law, Mike) are running the Half Marathon. I'm not sure I'm ready for it but ready or not.....

I found this picture from Tommy's first or second Houston Marathon (the full 26.2). Tommy's not in it. I was spectating and waiting around for Tommy to come around the corner and snapped this picture. I had forgotten about it and thought it was funny. You see all kinds of funny stuff at the marathon from the spectator view and the participator's view. I like both views. If you participate, though, you get a "free" t-shirt!


Perhaps these two young ladies ran their share of marathons back in the day.....