I guess it is good that I am feeling run down the week before my 1/2 instead the week of it. I have not worked out since Monday and will be running my last training run of 11 miles tomorrow. Next week involves plenty of rest and short runs. I race next Sunday.

I decidcate mile 4-5 to my sister Michelle. We are as opposite as can be. I always admired her for choosing life in 1981. I know that it was not easy for her to be pregnant at such a young age (16). That baby she had allowed me to meet my husband.

Her son at the time was a first grader in 1987 and he had a very deep voice. If I remember this right a cute new School Psychologist tested him at school. Turns out that he was a normal kid with a different sounding voice. She called me at home to tell me about the cute School Psych.

About a month later I was at a reading training and I got to meet Brad Johnson. We got to talking and we discovered that he knew my sister and my nephew from school. Anyway it gave us something in common to talk about. We started to date and on some of those early dates we would take my nephew.

Brad and I married on August 5, 1990.

Again, isn't interesting how we are all connected. I know that you don't run Michelle but I would like to dedicate mile 4-5 to you.