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GO IRISH!  That sounds fun, I will be there!!

I thought you had planned for Disney as #100...

I got another email - they changed the website to reflect the 3 1/2 time limit, but the guy said they want everyone to finish and are not strict on the time limit.

I participated in a Tri Girl event last spring in that very same park. It was great! It was well organized and a great event!
I have a date conflict that day but encourage any/all that are considering it  
FWIW - I recall most of the course was on pavement,yet a back section was a trail like (gravel/dirt)path for a short distance. It did have some very open areas - so sunscreen was greatly recommended.
It was fun!      JUST DO IT 

Join GCRC for a college football game  - Purdue vs Notre Dame - on Saturday, 230 pm at Boondoggles on NASA Rd 1!

Boiler Up!
 

Awesome!  Thanks Mark. 

Why Are We Here?

So we were lying on our backs on the grass in the park next to our hamburger wrappers, my 14-year-old son and I, watching the clouds loiter overhead, when he asked me, "Dad, why are we here?"

And this is what I said:

"I've thought a lot about it, son, and I don't think it's all that complicated. I think maybe we're here just to teach a kid how to bunt or eat sunflower seeds without using his hands.

"We're here to pound the steering wheel and scream as we listen to the game on the radio, 20 minutes after we pulled into the garage. We're here to look all over, give up, and then find the ball in the hole.

"We're here to wear our favorite sweat-soaked Houston Astros cap, torn sweatshirt, and the Converse sneakers we lettered in on a Saturday morning with nowhere we have to go and no one special we have to be.

"We're here to tie the perfect fly, make the perfect cast, catch absolutely nothing, and still call it a perfect morning.

"We're here to nail a yield sign with an apple core from half a block away. We're here to win the stuffed bear or go broke trying.

"I don't think the meaning of life is gnashing our bicuspids over what comes after death but tasting all the tiny moments that come before it. We're here to be there when our kid has three goals and an assist. And especially when he doesn't.

"I don't think we're here to make SportsCenter. The really good stuff never does. Like finding ourselves with a free afternoon, a little red 327 fuel-injected 1962 Corvette convertible, and an unopened map of Texas' backroads.

"None of us will find ourselves on our deathbeds saying, 'I wish I'd spent more time on the Smith account.' We're going to say, 'That scar? I got that scar stealing a home run at the company softball game.'

"See, grown-ups spend so much time doggedly slaving toward the better car, the perfect house, the big day that will finally make them happy, when happy just walked by wearing a bicycle helmet two sizes too big for him. We're not here to find a way to heaven. The way is heaven.

"Does that answer your question, son?"

And he said, "Not really, Dad."

And I said, "No?"

And he said, "No, what I meant is, why are we here when Mom said to pick her up 40 minutes ago?"

8 miler:

http://www.mapmyrun.com/route/us/tx/league%20city/916128327726093156

Go out behind the school to 518.
Take a right on South Shore run down to the lake near Austin Street.
Take a right on the path to go around the lake.
Follow path around the lake then take a left on Austin Street.
Run to the next lake off of Austin near Tuscan Lakes. (take a right)
Go around the lake and take a right on Tuscan Lakes Blvd.
Take a right on Austin.
Take a left on Meadow Parkway.
Take left on 518 back to the school.

HALF marathoners:  your turn around will be at mile 2 along South Shore Blvd.


WATER will be at Austin / Meadow Parkway (mile 4)

Just got an email stating that was an error on the website. The time limit is 3 1/2 hrs and they are going to change the Run Girl website.

It's one of Jana Landry's races......In Humble.

http://www.trigirlsports.com/page4