Texas and Beach to Bay Relay

I flew down to San Antonio to visit my friend Brenda and to also run the beach to bay relay marathon with her and some of her friends from church in Corpus Christi. I have't seen Brenda since her wedding in November so it was a fun reunion. We went to lunch at a yummy mexican Resturant for lunch and then packed up the kids and drove down to the coast for the relay. The weather was very "Texas like". Thunder, lightening, rainstorm in the morning, and then clear skies in the afternoon. (I still can't get the hang of this blogging thing, so I apologize for everything being out of order.. :)

The morning of race day from our hotel

Waiting for our leg to start. It was just starting to rain again when it was go time. We had to run under the bridge, loop around and run on the bridge across the bay.. I have never been in a rain storm like that before. I think I had my eyes closed half the time because I couldn't see with all the rain. And the bridge was starting to swell with water so it was like running in puddles. Every child's dream.


This was Brenda's first Marathon relay and she did awesome. I decided not to post the picture of her in her "garbage bag". We asked for garbage bags at the hotel so we cold put them over us so we wouldn't get wet.. Well, 5 drops of rain and we would have been drenched anyway.. I kept my jacket on because it was covering my i pod and camera.. Every 5 minutes I would ring out the bottom of my jacket so that it wouldn't weigh me down as I ran..

By the time we finished our leg, it had stopped raining.. We sacrificed our lives on that bridge while it it was thundering/lightening.. but it was worth it.!

We had 2 teams and one "cheerleader" that cheered on various sections of the relay.


Both teams finished in under 5 hours.. We actually would have finished earlier if we were really serious about it. Each person waited for the other person on the team most of the time and ran together.. Brenda took off about 15 minutes before me, but I caught up with her on mile 2.

We were able to spend time after the relay on the beach on Padre Island on the coast. Put on sunscreen, but not enough and ended up with a little burn on my back.


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We drove into downtown San Antonio to visit the Alamo on sunday afternoon and walked around downtown and visited the River Walk.

Here are a few pictures of the buildings in
downtown San Antonio.


Brenda and her husband Jeremy and his children, Jalon and Diantha.


The river walk in downtown San Antonio





I decided to retire my running shoes. They were still wet on monday morning and smelled of seaweed..