Weekend Review

So this time it's not a false alarm. Training for the marathon in Wichita 10-10-10. If I'm able to stay healthy, I intend to run my second marathon. Sheila is training to run with me, and Steve is doing most of the training runs with me as well. This is a big help for me. He is training for a 100 mile run November 6, so the timing is good. We have a few logistics to work out, like tonight he had an 8 mile run and I had a 5 mile run. I gave him a twenty minute head start and it worked out pretty well that he met up with me on his way back at my 2.5 turn around point and he ran the last with me. Last Saturday he ran the 4 to Sheila's house and then we ran ten with him from there. This training plan is a little more ambitious, I ran 28 miles last week in the first week of training. I intend to be one of Steve's pace runners at his 100 mile, during the night time hours, because I think after 50 miles or so he will be ready for company. We will see how it goes. 5:30 run in the morning, 5 miles. How sick is it that I look forward to this?
Nate's summer baseball team went 6-0 in their first tournament this weekend. It was 4 days in OKC and I couldn't go, but he plays with a friend from school, actually a close friend of his, so they go to practices and games, etc. together. He came home with the coolest thing. The tournament was sponsored by a group called "Ambassadors". All the games were played at Christian colleges. He has a journal called "A Life Worth Following" based on the journal of Justin Sullivan, a Christian boy who was named the Oklahoma high school baseball player of the year in 2002 and the next day died in a car crash. Nate told me the story and showed me the journal. It made an impact on him, but I couldn't help thinking about the boys who maybe didn't know about God but now have heard. He leaves for Lincoln, Nebraska Thursday for tournament number two. I am not going to this one either. I hate missing, but we are at the point I will be missing more of his life, and that's just the way it is.