I am still in shock about the whole St G Marathon! I can hardly believe that we got in and that I am crazy enough to run another one. I said after my first it would be my one and only and here I am going to run another one. All day at school I kept sneaking over (in between teaching of course) to my computer to refresh the St George Marathon page to see if the lottery results were in. The results didn't post until about 3 PM. We texted in freak out mode on our group text for about 20 minutes trying to locate Lexi. Ebbi was sure Lexi was dead somewhere, she was dead, her phone was dead... pretty close to being dead don't you think? Tyler, Ebbi's husband had already told her the news about everyone so we just face timed Ebbi on Lexi's phone while she told us all the "GOOD NEWS". So here we are a few crazy ladies about to start training for a CrAzY adventure together! That's the part that I love the most, we are gonna do this together! I can hardly wait for the long run talks where we will solve problems we are having in our lives and who knows maybe we will come up with a way to have world peace! We're cool like that!
It's 2013 and we found out on May "13"th that we drew out for the St. George Marathon! I knew we would! 13 is our lucky number and the stars are just aligning for us. I was a little skeptical that both MaryAnn's entry and our entry would both be drawn seeing how we put in separately but they were! I am so happy about that. I woke up the morning of the 13th and checked the St. George Marathon website immediately. I had googled beforehand that the race results had been posted at 8 AM previous years so of course I was anxious. Nothing! Ebbi was texting me nonstop asking me to check over and over since she was leaving town. She was a little excited too. Finally, I think Ebbi called the actual marathon people and they said results would be posted by 5:00 PM at the latest. We all agreed that we would wait to check together and see if we got in. We made strict orders that if we saw the email we would NOT open it. Haha. I just love us. Next thing I know it's 3:40 and I put my phone on the charger because it had died for I don't know... twenty minutes... and I open my phone to about 121 texts! Apparently, the lottery results were in and my devoted friends were trying to find me! My phone had only been dead 20 minutes! Haha. I scanned the texts for a sec but couldn't read them because more texts kept coming through. It was Becka, MaryAnn & Ebbi convinced that I was dead in a ditch somewhere. I finally connected with them and MaryAnna and Becka showed up at my house. We facetimed Ebbi, who was in Vegas, and she gave us the newS! We got in! All of us! I haven't been this excited about something in a very long time. I am so nervous at the unknown but I feel so excited/thankful that I get to do it with these great girls. I couldn't have picked a better group to go through this experience with. I know there are going to be a ton of memories made along the way. I'm going to try and document everything I can so we can always look back and remember the little things.
I'm not sure what I think of the news we got on Lottery day... When I was driving around, looking for Lexi, I was thinking, "what the heck!! Do I even want to know?" I'm the one who put in a little less than a half hour before the cut off time. Ha ha... I guess we are winners for getting in, but I am scared to death. I've only been a "runner" for a little over a year. What was I thinking putting in for a marathon? It was peer preasure I tell ya!! Or the thought of my friends embarking on this adventure without me. 2 years ago if you had told me I would want to run a marathon I would have laughed in your face. But I do.. I want to show myself that I can do it. I figure if I can run a marathon, I can do just about anything. I know that's not true, but kinda... And doing it with these girls is the best part of all!! Ebbi Even promised me would cross the finish line together, which is only fitting since she is the one who got me started. Really these are the 3 people that had the biggest hand it making me a "runner"... I just realized that. (just now as I'm typing this.. ha ha) Cool. Lex told ebbi to ask me to do TZR. Ebbi did and MaryAnn took me under her wing on many a long run and let her crazy running addiction rub off on me. So yay!! Excited! I guess so.. Here we go...
I woke up early on May 13th to get a run in, I just wanted to see how I felt about running on the exact day that would determine our fate. At the time running was something i hated (still not to the "I Love Running" stage, but I at least I don't hate it) I'm not sure what that would determine if I hated my run or not, but it was just something I wanted to do. Lex ran with me,It was a nice run with good conversation. We thought we would know the results by 8:00 am, Lexi and I were texting each other like mad. Nothing! Then we heard it would be 10:00...Nothing! I was now on the road to Las Vegas with my mom and little girls, We were All now texting back and forth frantically wondering our fate..... Nothing! I was starting to lose my patience (which is easily done). I called the Marathon office and she told me we would know at the latest 5:00pm. That gave us a little time to chill out. Not to say it wasn't on my mind. We all made a pack that everyone would be together and they would face time me. I had just talked with Lexi on the phone, and not 20 min later Tyler sent me a picture of the confirmation saying I got in, which meant that Lexi and Becka did too. He also knew that Maryann and Bryant had got in. WoW! I was Freaking out to say the least! I started texting lexi.....Nothing! Figures! she let her phone die! nothing new! Just like she runs with her laces untied, its what she does hahaha....From the other post we all know I knew the results and I was sure Lexi was dead. Turns out she is still alive and we are All running the St George marathon on October 5, 2013! "OH MY HECK!" What have we got ourselves into? I am Excited, but Scared! My take on it all is that I am doing this for the Journey! Time is not an issue, unless we are dead last and they are closing the course. I am training with some Amazing people and I cant wait for the next few months and all that we will endure! Here we go now....
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