As you know, my two handsome nephews, Jimmy and Johnny, were born with cleft palettes. My sister Anna and her husband James have been active in the cleft community, and while in China helped in translation for Operation Smile. Well, that organization sponsored a 5K run and 1K walk this weekend, so we signed up.
The wind was biting cold in the morning, and I nearly wanted to run with my gigantic coat on. Still, the sun shone brightly and we enjoyed time talking and goofing off together before the race. Leah Sherry was there, though the speed bomb raced ahead of Anna and me right at the start!
As it turned out, we only ran for about 1 mile. At the 1 mile point, the trail became a super steep switchback up a gravel mountainside. (To quote Leah's blog entry, "what the?!") I'd never done a "trail run" of quite this type!! We were also then running through smoke from a nearby fire. And Anna was sick with laryngitis and feeling feverish. So we just decided to walk most of the remaining 2 miles. We came in dead last, but had a fantastic time catching up on sister time. Much more important to me than running up a non-trail! Anna wrote about the event on her blog, too.
Taylor had tons to do on his final dissertation/book edits, but still supported us and came for the walk. I'm so glad he was there too! Poor David didn't like keeping his gloves and hat on -- yet it was so cold!
The Whole Gang
2 comments:
Gasp! Oh my gosh! Taylor's hair is on fire in that second to last picture. Is he okay?
So glad to have you two as buddies there. And yes, WHAT THE!
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