In LR

Dave and I have made it to Little Rock. So far we haven't done too much except eat Aunt Kathy's food, which is reason enough to come and visit. (She cooks with love- very important!)

This week Dave and I celebrated our 4 year wedding anniversary. (yea us!) We figured we would spend some quality time together just doing date-like stuff in Little Rock or Hot Springs, and then I could run the half marathon on Sunday. It was truly funny when I ran into Joy at the expo- we didn't necessarily plan to hang out together today and were just going to meet up on Sunday for the race. Anyways, we ended up spending most of the day with her- and Dave made some hilarious comments about spending our anniversary with Joy. I have to laugh, and truly my friends are such an important part of my life I wouldn't have it any other way.

I had the chance to meet Bart Yasso at the expo, and I bought his book and got a nice autograph saying:

Damie, Never Limit Where Running Can Take You. Bart Yasso

Dave and I loosely decided to go see some races at the horse track in Hot Springs today- kind of an anniversary date. However, we got a little side-tracked and didn't have a big enough window of time to head down that way. I had a moment where I just felt really sad and upset that we weren't going, and I started to cry. I mean, we could have made time to go, I just didn't push for it- not realizing it was so important to me. I finally realized I was crying because it was the one thing Pop Pop and I had recently planned that we did not get to do. He had planned to take me to watch the races on my next visit- a visit that never happened. Horses have been such a big part of my life, and I have always felt that I was missing something since I had never seen a big race at a real track. I mean, Dave will go with me to the track because I ask him too, but Pop Pop would really want to go to the track with me and would enjoy it. Dern it if we never got to go watch the horses together.

And so it was just a thought I had today if you don't make the time to do the things you want to do, you won't do them- they will be just one of those things you wish you would have done. So, next time Dave and I have some plans to do something new, I am going to make sure we do it so I don't have to look back and say- "You know, Dave and I always wanted to do that, but we just never took the time."

Wish me luck tomorrow in the half as I run my booty up some hills. Send some good luck to Joy, too, as she races her way through the course.