No One

You and me together, through the days and nights, I don't worry cause every thing's gonna be alright. No one, No one, No one, can get in the way of what I'm feeling.............

I love Alicia Keys she is the greatest, I can not get enough of her album.

Well enough of that I know you are all waiting for news on my race. Well I did it I ran all 5 miles without stopping, I ran it in about an hour and four minutes. It was great, I felt awesome after I did it. It was an amazing feeling. It did not start like that though, I got up at 4:30am after going to sleep about 2am cause I was nervous and could not sleep, when I woke up I felt like I was going to throw up, then I had to meet Stef, John, and George at Capognas so we could ride down to the race together. We got to the race, and let me clarify the weather for everyone I know you all are up north and it is freezing there, but it was freezing to me yesterday morning. It was about 40 degrees but we ran over the causeway to the beach, and it was windy as hell, so the feels like temperature was about 25 degrees. We were miserable, we were all saying how we were not getting out of the car, we were not doing this, (and then it was dark and the sun had not come out yet also, I forgot that part) Well we started anyway, and about 5 minutes after we started the sun came out so it got a little better, (but the wind was ridiculous) The race went from Coachman Park over the new bridge to the beach down the causeway to the beach and back. The worst part of it was the bridge going over in the beginning was ok but then we had to come back and go over it again. It was about mile 4 when we had to go over the bridge again so by then my body was exhausted. George and John stayed right with me, they kept me going thanks to them or I would have stopped especially on that bridge. Great story when we were on the bridge. I was feeling like I could just fall over and I did not think I could keep going, I was yelling at George, John and the Bridge, I literally was screaming I was saying Fu@# this bridge I can't F%$#ing do this I have to stop, and George was yelling back Fu@# this bridge you are going to beat this bridge, then out of no where, we come up to this little old lady who I want to say was about 60, 65, at this point we are about half way up the bridge, and as we are yelling obscenities at each other and the bridge this cute little old lady (who was walking the race,) turns around and says to me come on sweetie you can do it, and at that moment I saw grandma, and that is the voice I heard, and I kept going. I got to thank her after the crude obscene run up the bridge. We all laughed about that afterwards. I know you will all get a kick out of that one.

Oh and just to clarify, my buddy Stef did not run the 5 mile she ran the half marathon which is 13.1 miles so that is why she was not with me and the guys. Otherwise she would have been right there with me too.

Thank you all for the encouragement and the messages and all the prayers you all helped me get through it too. I love you all so much and all your faces were running through my mind the whole race. I can't wait to see you all in a couple weeks. Talk to you all soon.

Kristy