Just Plodding Along

For anyone interested Kena completed her 260 mile run across Georgia on Saturday evening. First female and fourth overall. She is freakin amazing! Way to go Kena!!!! This weekend my mom and stepdad came to visit so we explored the area.  A little antiquing in Pine Mountain and a visit to FDR's Little White House in Warm Springs one day.  Infantry museum and a base tour the next. A trip to Andersonville, a confederate military prison, was the perfect way to spend Memorial Day. The cemetery located there is still an operating National Cemetery and there were quite a few people out visiting. It was a good reminder to be thankful for everything that I have and recognize the sacrifice of so many others. With all the excitement of running with Kena and family visiting I managed to get 39 miles of running in last week. 30 of those were with Kena running through the night Wednesday into Thursday. Monday I managed to get 4 miles of hills in and some weigh...

So when your friend (who just happens to be an amazing runner ) asks you to run with them through the night to help them achieve an amazing goal the appropriate response is heck yes!!! And then you slightly panic because you don't know if you can actually run all night and convince your other amazing runner friend Nicole to come too because this ultra running business is kinda crazy and everyone needs back up!  Kena is doing the Run for the Heroes 260 miles solo across Georgia (course goes from Ft. Stewart to downtown Columbus) over three days to raise money for the House of Heroes. If  you are the charitable sort consider making a donation  on Kena's behalf. House of Heroes is a wonderful organization that provides no cost home repairs to military and public safety veterans.  This run is for a good cause and all but I wanted to run with Kena for two reasons. Number 1- I like to run with Kena! Number 2- I am always up for learning about ultras and how ...