DanMan or bust

I am totally excited about this upcoming trail race

I am doing this coming weekend. The race is called

the DanMan. This race is put on at this man's ranch

every year. The DanMan Run is held in honor of our

own endurance running hero, Dan Little. Dan has completed

over 120 endurance events consisting of marathons, over

twenty 50-mile races, and three Iron Distance Triathlons.

As witnessed by Dan's accomplishments, endurance events test

your physical ability, but more than that test your mental ability.

The DanMan is designed for all runners to experience this test

of mental endurance.

Bobby & I will be traveling along with some of our

running friends to Madill, Ok. to do this race. I hear

this town is pretty small. No wonder I didn't know where

the heck it was.

I am not much into trail racing but I heard this trail was

easy enough and not too rocky so I thought what the

heck why not join in the fun since I am a Tatur member.

For those who don't know what that is it is an awesome

group of trail runners who belong to this I guess you would

call it a club formed by one of my running coaches Brian Hoover.

Tatur stands for Tulsa Area Trail & Ultra Runners. Brian has

done an awesome job putting all this together and keeping it

organized and putting on his own trail races. They meet at

Turkey Mountain every week to run the trails there. For anyone

reading this and want to know more about Taturs you can log onto

http://www.taturs.org/. Like I said I don't usually run the trails but I do

join the membership to support and help out at the races when I can.

I am doing the 10K run at DanMan and Bobby is going to attempt

to do a marathon so he too can join some of our group in becoming

a marathon maniac. Our friends Chrissy & Michael will be doing

a half marathon, Dana I think will be doing a marathon also so

Bobby & her can hang out together keeping each other going.

I think Deon is also going to attempt an ultra (31 miles) as well.

Ken & Coach Kathy will be doing a 100 miler last I heard unless

they change their minds and do a 50 miler which makes more sense

to me. I hope we can talk Jason & Lisa into coming along for the fun.

I was hoping Russell (my brother) & Christin ( my sister in-law)

was going to come along so I could have someone do the 6 miler with

but their cat got sick and had to be in the cat hospital for several days

so that set them back alot of money so they had to decline the trip.

Since I love to make lists I will be working on my list of things to

remember to take for this trip.

1. hotel reservations ( Made that already at the Comfort Inn in Ardmore)

2. reserve a car rental ( got that done)

3. print out a map ( got that done)

4. my list could go on but why bore you with all that.

I hear that the weather will be awesome for the race. I am glad it won't be

freezing cold. The temps are suppose to be in the 70's for the high that day

which I know will be a little warm for those doing the long distances but I

will take that over freezing cold anyday.

I wish everyone luck that is going to do this fun race and I hear that they

also serve up some yummy grub for us so that's a bonus in my book.

This has nothing to do with my post but I had to share these cute pics.

Picture of my granddaughter Katie who is now

missing her 2 front teeth.

My daughter showing off her new glasses.

I wish everyone a blessed week.