Another Winter Gone

It was a struggle but another winter is gone and Spring is in the air. Keeping up my running and biking in the cold was a challenge. My age must be getting to me because some of the days I would have run in the past, I passed up this year. Thank God it is finally warming. I'm looking forward to a lot of run and bike filled Summer days.

Good news. I just found out that Annette Bednosky is putting on a 50K that will go right my the farm where I grew up. It is called the New River 50K and will follow the New River Trail which follows the New River from the town of Fries and will follow Chestnut creek to Cliffview where the turn around point is. I really can't wait to do this race. Previously I ran from Cliffview and followed the trail to the Low Water Bridge which I crossed to my Grandma's house. It was about a 14 mile run. The hard thing about it was that I didn't take any water or fuel with me and I suffered from it. Luckily there are some springs located in a few places along the trail. Above is photo taken from the trail looking across the river.

It has been awhile since my last post so I have a little catching up to do. The real big news is that my daugher's boy friend (Sam) has joined the Army Reserve and is presently doing Basic Training at FT Sill OK. He is due to graduate at the end of the month. My daughter and I are planning on attending the graduation. He will then report to Shepard AFB in Texas for 10 months of AIT. I'm afraid a wedding is in the works. They both have talked about it and my daughter wants to live in Texas with him while he attends school. I'm not crazy about it but what can I do?

My son now has a job. He will be working at Ikea. I'm really proud of him because he did everything on his own to get it. He went and got the application and filled it out by himself. I hope he will be a good worker like the rest of his family