February 3-4 Weekend!

Because changing the back end of a ticket is almost as bad as changing the whole thing, I'll be flying home, as originally planned, this weekend. (It is cheaper to fly home and fly back into Seattle for next week.)

However, I won't be racing, but I will be getting in some miles! (Had I stayed here, I would have done a half marathon down in Olympia, Washington.)

I'll be heading straight to Huntsville State Park to begin running with Rick Cook at mile 60 in his attempt to complete the Rocky Raccoon 100-Miler - and by doing so earning the Texas Trilogy Award for finishing the Sunmart 50-Miler, the Bandera 100K and RR100!

As many of you know, Rick and I have become good friends over the past year. Not sure how it happened or why ... but it just did! He's as crazy about ultra running as I am about statistics!

We ran much of the Texas Marathon in Kingwood together on New Year's Day of 2006.

But we probably ran much of the then hp Houston Marathon as well in January 2005.

I knew, before I got a chance to meet Sarah Graybeal in 2005, that she had run the marathon because I kept hearing people saying, "Go Sarah!" Why? Because she had this big piece of masking tape across her chest with the words on it.

Later that spring, we actually turned up in the same picture during the Conoco Phillips Rodeo Run of '05 -- click here! (I'm bib number 118 and Sarah is 807.)

But check out this picture -- click here (Rick in the middle and me cutoff to the right) -- and see by going back to his group pictures (#3512 Photos) to see that Rick and I crossed the finish line within a second of one another!

I was there when Rick started the Rocky Raccoon 100 Miler last year.

I hope that I'm able to say that I'll be there on Sunday morning when he finishes!