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Ace Hardware -- Seagoville

2011-12-13T16:15:00.000-08:00

Recently closed a tract in my hometown (Seagoville). Ace Hardware plans to break ground in Janaury 2012'. So thankful for this deal as it will provide badly needed materials and supplies for the community. It fronts Walmart and the numbers for this location should be rock solid.

Dallas County Public Defenders Office

2011-04-03T04:30:00.001-07:00

I have recently been blessed with an internship through the University of North Texas System (Dr. Blackburn) towards the completion of my undergraduate degree in Criminal Justice. One of the most rewarding and productive academic experiences in my life has been my internship at the Dallas County Public Defenders Office. I am interning under Ms. Gail Dawson in drug courts and Ms. Vickie Rice in mental health courts. I'm learning the mechanics of the courts and the law one brick at a time. I am extremely grateful to Mr. Paul Blocker, First Assistant at the PD office for giving me this opportunity.

The Honorable Thurgood Marshall

2010-04-11T10:45:00.000-07:00

Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American jurist and the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. Before becoming a judge, he was a lawyer who was best remembered for his high success rate in arguing before the Supreme Court and for the victory in Brown v. Board of Education. He was nominated to the court by President Lyndon Johnson in 1967. Early life: Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland on July 2, 1908, the great-grandson of a slave.

I Have a Dream

2010-04-08T11:53:00.000-07:00

Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the African American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States, and he has become a human rights icon: King is recognized as a martyr by two Christian churches. A Baptist minister, King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, serving as its first president. King's efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he raised public consciousness of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest orators in U.S.

Kelly S. Harris

Carlos Santana - The Gift of Music

2010-04-06T12:39:00.000-07:00

Carlos Santana

Any Carlos Santana biography that you read shows that he has had a clear love for music since he was a small child. He was five years old when he learned the violin from his dad who was a professional Mariachi violinist. Santana was part of a typical large Hispanic family made up of his parents, José Santana and Josefina Barrangán, and six children: Antonio, Laura, Irma, Leticia, Jorge and María.

Santana ended up in Tijuana after his family moved from his native Autlán de Navarro in Jalisco, Mexico. He began playing at clubs and bars with various bands on the Tijuana strip. At the age of eight he decided to trade the violin for the guitar after listening to blues and rock & roll on the radio. He never looked back.

Any Carlos Santana biography tells you that 40 years ago this man, who comes from at least three generations of musicians, took the world by storm with his distinct sound. In an Eye On The Bay interview in 2005, Carlos Santana confessed: “I just knew exactly what I wanted to be, how I wanted to do it.” He also attributes all he knows to his father and to picking up blues records. He studied and emulated the sounds of John Lee Hooker, B.B. King, T. Bone Walker and others.

"Music, more than almost anything else, has the power to bring people together-people of different ages, races, religions. So I'm more clear now as to why I play. It's not just to make people happy or to make them dance-it's to change things: change myself, change the people in my band, change people all over the world, so we can have a clearer vision about life and about ourselves, so we can bring more harmony to the world."..........Carlos Santana.

The Greatness of Lillian Wald

2010-04-05T06:24:00.000-07:00

Lillian D. Wald (March 10, 1867 – 1940) was a nurse; social worker; public health official; teacher; author; editor; publisher; activist for peace, women's, children's and civil rights; and the founder of American community nursing. Her unselfish devotion to humanity is recognized around the world and her visionary programs have been widely copied.

Young life and education:
Wald was born into a comfortable, German-Jewish middle-class family in Cincinnati, Ohio, (her father was an optical dealer). In 1878, she moved with her family to Rochester, New York. She attended Miss Cruttenden's English-French Boarding and Day School for Young Ladies; upon graduation she tried to enter Vassar College but was denied, as the school thought her too young at 16. In 1889, she attended New York Hospital's School of Nursing. She graduated from the New York Hospital Training School for Nurses in 1891, then took courses at the Woman’s Medical College.

Nursing career:
In 1893 after a period of working at the New York Juvenile Asylum–an orphanage where children were kept and conditions were poor–Ward started to teach a home class on nursing for poor immigrant families on the Lower East Side (New York). Not long after, she began to care for sick residents of the Lower East Side as a visiting nurse. Along with another nurse, Mary Brewster, she moved into a spartan room near her patients, in order to care for them better. In 1893 she also coined the term "public health nurse" to describe nurses whose work is integrated into the public community.

Wald extended this mission as founder of the Henry Street Settlement which later attracted the attention of Jacob Schiff, a prominent Jewish philanthropist who secretly provided her the means to help more effectively the "poor Russian Jews" whose care she provided. She was able to expand her work later, having 27 nurses on staff by 1906, and succeeded in attracting broader financial support from such gentiles as Elizabeth Milbank Anderson. By 1913 the staff had grown to 92 people. Ward worked in this area for 40 years.

Wald authored two books relating to this work, the first being The House on Henry Street, first published in 1911, followed by Windows on Henry Street in 1934. Both books went through numerous printings; modern reprints are available in both hard and paperback editions. Today, Lillian Wald is regarded as the founder of visiting nursing in the United States and Canada.

The Henry Street Settlement eventually expanded into the Visiting Nurse Service of New York City. As an advocate for nursing in public schools her ideas led to the New York Board of Health's organizing and running the first public nursing system in the world. She was the first president of the National Organization for Public Health Nursing. Wald established a nursing insurance partnership with Metropolitan Life Insurance Company that became a model for many other corporate projects, suggested a national health insurance plan, and helped found Columbia University’s School of Nursing.

Community outreach:
Not content to improve people's lives just through nursing, Wald also taught women how to cook and sew, provided recreational activities for families, and got involved in the labor movement. Out of her concern for women's working conditions, she helped to found the Women's Trade Union League in 1903 and later served as a member of the executive committee of the New York City League. In 1910, Wald and several colleagues went on a six-month tour of Hawaii, Japan, China, and Russia, a trip that increased her involvement in worldwide humanitarian issues.

In 1915, Wald founded the Henry Street Neighborhood Playhouse to serve as a cultural center. She also lobbied against child labor laws, to allow all children to attend school. She helped establish the United State Children’s Bureau, helped President Theodore Roosevelt create the Federal Children’s Bureau, and advocated for education of the mentally handicapped.

Advocacy:
Another of her concerns was the treatment of African-Americans. As a civil rights activist, Wald insisted that all Henry Street classes be racially integrated. She was one of the founders, in 1909, of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). The first major public conference to create the organization opened with a meeting at the Henry Street settlement.

An advocate for women's suffrage and for peace, Wald organized New York City campaigns for suffrage, marched to protest the United States’ entry into World War I, joined the Women's Peace Party and helped establish the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. In 1915 she was elected president of the newly-formed American Union Against Militarism (AUAM) and after United States joined the war she remained involved with the AUAM's daughter organizations, the Foreign Policy Organization and the American Civil Liberties Union.

Legacy:
The New York Times named Wald as one of the 12 greatest living American women in 1922 and she later received the Lincoln Medallion for her work as an "Outstanding Citizen of New York.” In 1937 a radio broadcast celebrated Wald's 70th birthday; Mrs. Sara Delano Roosevelt read a letter from her son, President Franklin Roosevelt, in which he praised Wald for her “unselfish labor to promote the happiness and well being of others.”

Wald never married. She died in 1940 of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of seventy-three. Thousands mourned her passing at private and public meetings. Rabbi Stephen Wise of the Free Synagogue led a service at Henry Street's Neighborhood Playhouse. Dr. John L. Elliott led a private service at her Westport home. A few months later, 2,500 people filled Carnegie Hall to hear statements from the president, governor, mayor, and others testifying to Wald's ability to bring people together and effect change. She was interred at Mount Hope Cemetery in Rochester.

The Lillian Wald Houses on Avenue D in Manhattan were named for her. The Henry Street Settlement and the Visiting Nurse Service of New York continue the work she started more than a hundred years ago.

Bibliography:
The House on Henry Street (1911)
Windows on Henry Street (1934)

Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address

2010-03-23T05:06:00.000-07:00

President Lincoln rode by train to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania from Washington D.C. The following morning, November 19, 1863 he rode by horseback to the gravesite followed by dignataries and widows of fallen soldiers. He waited for 2 hours, listening to a two hour speech given by famed orator and former U.S. Senator, Edward Everett before delivering his famed speech that lasted only a few minutes. Another great hero: Abraham Lincoln.

Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln Civil War Speech: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met here on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of it as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But in a larger sense we can not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled, here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but can never forget what they did here.
It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so nobly carried on. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation shall have a new birth of freedom; and that this government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

John Marshall

2010-03-22T07:16:00.000-07:00

John Marshall (September 24, 1755 – July 6, 1835) was an American statesman and jurist who shaped American constitutional law and made the Supreme Court a center of power. Marshall was Chief Justice of the United States, serving from February 4, 1801, until his death in 1835. He served in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1799, to June 7, 1800, and, under President John Adams, was Secretary of State from June 6, 1800, to March 4, 1801. Marshall was from the Commonwealth of Virginia and a leader of the Federalist Party.

The longest serving Chief Justice in Supreme Court history (see, List of United States Chief Justices by time in office), Marshall dominated the Court for over three decades (a term outliving his own Federalist Party) and played a significant role in the development of the American legal system. Most notably, he established that the courts are entitled to exercise judicial review, the power to strike down laws that violate the Constitution. Thus, Marshall has been credited with cementing the position of the judiciary as an independent and influential branch of government. Furthermore, Marshall made several important decisions relating to federalism, shaping the balance of power between the federal government and the states during the early years of the republic. In particular, he repeatedly confirmed the supremacy of federal law over state law and supported an expansive reading of the enumerated powers."

Playtri Sprint Triathlon

2009-07-09T13:10:00.000-07:00

I entered the Playtri Sprint Triathlon on July 5, 2009 at Las Colinas (Irving, Texas). The distances were 500M swim, 12 mile bike and 5K.

Two local great talents took the mens and womens division, Tyler and Ashley Johnson. Both qualified recently at Kansas 70.3 for the world championship in Florida.

The highlight of my day was momma and my daughter Ruth came to watch me race for the first time. Turns out, they wound up volunteering and helping out the race director. Im not surprised, because they are very caring and giving folks.

Dana Lyons, an outstanding athlete from The Woodlands won my age group and was 9th overall. Dana is a great champion and is very deserving.

Jacob Evans, a good friend of mine came in 2nd overall and had a great race. He is self coached and has already been to Kona through sheer guts and determination.

2nd AG / 37th OA

Metroplex Triathlon

2009-06-22T07:43:00.000-07:00

I entered the Metroplex Sprint Triathlon on Saturday June 13 at Joe Pool Lake in Grand Prarie. 400M swim, 11 mile bike and 2 mile run. What a great event. I had a rough swim but picked up some ground on the bike and run.

1st AG / 12th OA.

Cleburne Triathlon

2009-06-01T05:05:00.000-07:00

I entered the Cleburne Triathlon on May 31, 2009. A sprint distance of 300 yards, 15 mile bike, and 5K. It was put on by Iron Head Race Productions.

Patrick Schuster, former pro and now Grand Prarie Fireman set a course record which was awesome. Adam Wilk, Matthew Ison (young man behind me in picture), Jarrod Stephens and my close friend / training buddy Jerry Lewis rounded out the top 5.

I loved this event with the down home feel and great bike / run courses. I would recommend this triathlon for all skill levels.

I met Brannon Potts, Cody Howell (& his father) -- some up and coming young fellas. They just formed a triathlon club in Cleburne and are really trying hard. Best of luck to them.

I somehow managed to win Masters and came in 8th overall. What a blessing.

Thank you to the City of Cleburne, sponsors, and all the great volunteers.

Rockwall Sprint Triathlon

2009-05-19T09:38:00.000-07:00

On Sunday May 17, 2009 I entered the Rockwall Sprint Triathlon. A 300 yard pool swim, 14 mile bike and 2.9 mile run. The picture above was taken by Celebrated Images 50 meters from the finish line.

I had a very hectic week leading up to the event with work and family. Honestly, I wasn't sure how race day would work out. Thankfully, everything went well.

Jack Weiss, the race director does an excellent job. We have been experiencing heavy rains in the North Texas area recently and Mr. Weiss and crew had to modify the run course slightly because a portion is cross country -- which I love.

Michael Dawdy, a good friend of mine set a course record at 55:41. That is an incredible time.

I am having a great time and meeting some very nice people by entering local triathlons. My goal is to stay in shape, make improvements in all three disciplines and somehow glorify God along the way.

Hats off to all the volunteers, sponsors and the Rockwall Rotary for a great event.

6th Overall / 1st AG (1:03.40)

McKinney Kiwanis Triathlon

2009-05-07T09:24:00.000-07:00

Last winter I entered Playtri's North Texas Triathlon Series. This series included 4 local sprint races for a very reasonable price. The second race in the series was the McKinney Kiwanis Triathlon. Due to severe weather the night before the bike/run course had to be modified slightly. There were several precautionary turns with the roads being wet and slick.

The volunteers and the Kiwanis folks were super friendly. My hats off to Staci (Brode) Zaher, the race director, for moving forward and working extremely hard.

I got to meet a couple of real nice fellas (James Brown / Michael Ramsey) in my age group after the race which was great.

The event was a lot of fun and one that I strongly recommend.

10th Overall / 1st AG (50-54)

King Tut Triathlon

2009-04-23T10:28:00.000-07:00

King Tut Triathlon in McKinney, Texas April 19, 2009. I love racing at Stonebridge Lake. It's a very nice area and a challenging course. I thank God daily for good health and the ability to still enter events.

22nd Overall / 2nd in Age Group (50-54)

National Honor Society

2009-04-01T16:46:00.000-07:00

My daughter Hannah inducted today into the National Honor Society. She is a sophomore at Dallas Christian School. I am very proud of her. Congratulations Hannah...

Yoga

2009-03-29T13:56:00.000-07:00

I tried yoga for the first time in my life last Friday at the Tom Landry Center. The instructor was incredible and my fellow classmates were very helpful and friendly.

I can see where this discipline would significantly help my triathlon training. Now, where to fit yoga into my workout schedule(s). I'll figure it out, and definitely incorporate the class at least once a week. I have learned a great deal about yoga through recent research.

Dallas Mavericks

2009-03-03T01:38:00.000-08:00

Sharon and I at the Dallas Mavericks game. Some random guy took our picture as soon as we sit down and I couldnt for the life of me figure out what was going on. Well a month later here we are in the program booklet.

My good friend and training partner Clay Christopher is head of marketing for the Mavericks and treated us with tickets. Thanks Clay man...

Sharon is German so guess who her favorite Maverick is? Right!!!...I have to listen to her Dirk stories all the time...

Good times...

Austin Triathlon

2009-01-06T04:43:00.000-08:00

The first triathlon I entered in 2008 was the Austin Triathlon (Olympic) back in September. This picture is where all cyclists take a hard right coming down Congress Avenue. You can see the State Capitol in the background.

I got to see Brandon Marsh, Kelly Handel and James Cotter do a presentation at the race expo. My wave was the last to go and I got to see the elite athletes finish up their swims. They are incredibly fast. Kelly Handel was the first woman out of the water edging out Andrea Fisher. Brandon Marsh was the first male. They both won $500 for being first. It was very impressive watching James Cotter, Jason McMillan and Ahmed Zaher chasing Brandon out of the water and sprinting to their bikes.

My swim went fairly well and my bike was decent. Although, on the bike I witnessed an ole boy crash flying down Congress. He hit a cone, went airborne and crashed hard on his back. No question, the helmet saved his life because his head whiplashed onto the pavement.

I finished up the run and was eighth in my age group with a 2:26. I sure would like to make this an annual event. Those Jack & Adam boys did a great job putting on this race. I would highly recommend it.

Jogger Egg Nogger 5K

2008-12-21T11:05:00.000-08:00

I ran the Jogger Egg Nogger 5K event at White Rock lake on December 20, 2008. This was my first time to enter this event. It was well attended with over 500 runners.

Several junior and high school track teams ran the event with extremely fast times. Clearly, the future is very bright for Dallas area running.

I entered this event to determine how my running was coming along. My time was 20:29 (6:35 pace).

Overall, this was a great event.

White Rock Half Marathon

2008-12-19T13:46:00.001-08:00

For the first time I did the White Rock Half Marathon today. What an awesome event. I loved the course, winding through downtown Dallas, Turtle Creek, Highland Park, Lakewood then back down Katy Trail. I hope to make this an annual event. 10th in my age group.

NAME: Kelly Harris

DATE: December 14, 2008

BIB/DIV: 8111 / M 45-49

TIME: 1h:36m:19s

Dallas Turkey Trot

2008-12-01T07:19:00.000-08:00

Finish line at the 2008 Dallas Turkey Trot. The weather was perfect and the event was excellent.

Amazingly, being a native of Dallas this was my first Turkey Trot.

Also, this was my first run with the Garmin 305 Forerunner. It made a huge difference being able to monitor my pace, distance and heart rate.

My goal was anything under 1:04 or 8:00 minute pace. For some reason I had a great day and came in at 58:14.

After being out most of 2008 with an injury I am so thankful to be running again. I give God all the credit.

LONGHORN 70.3

2008-11-12T07:27:00.000-08:00

The finishing climb at mile 56 of the Longhorn 70.3 Half Ironman.

What a beautiful part of Texas.

I was only able to race twice in 2008 both being in Austin.

Hopefully, I can enter more events in 2009.

Congratulations to all the great athletes that participated in this event.

Galveston Mission Trip

2008-10-22T08:27:00.001-07:00

Me and one of the moms in front with a bunch of the 8th grade boys. At this place we patched a womans roof and cleared a bunch of trees.

One of several temporary landfills randomly located in the city.

100's of boats drydocked all along 45 leading into Galveston....what a trip.

Above are some pictures from a Galveston mission trip I recently went on. The trip was organized through Dallas Christian School where my daughters attend school.

Enormous destruction and hardship to say the least. A war zone with roofs blown off, boats drydocked on I.H. 45, trash and debris piled to the moon.

We definitely helped some folks...

Longhorn 70.3

2008-10-07T04:13:00.000-07:00

My First Half Ironman. What an awesome event.

Kelly Harris #1948
Ferris, TX. Age: 49

Chip Time
5:29:20
Overall Place
473 / 1929
Division Place
33 / 119
Swim 1.2Mile Time
29:33
Swim 1 2Mile Pace
1:32/M
T1 Time
02:27
Bike 56 Mile Time
2:40:28
Bike 56 Mile Pace
20.9mph
T2 Time
01:45
Run 13.1 Mile Time
2:15:04
Run 13.1 Mile Pace
10:19/M

Gift certificate

2008-10-07T04:09:00.000-07:00

Sharon and I at the farm heading out for dinner. I received a gift

certicate to a very nice restaurant for some recent volunteer work.

It was a nice treat and we had a great time.

J Bar C Cowboy Church

2008-07-21T14:02:00.000-07:00

My partner, Jerry Allen and I sold one of our buildings August 1, 2008 to J Bar C Cowboy Church. We provided owner financing.

Talk about bootstrapping. We watched them work very diligently for months building up their congregation and grow spiritually.

Hats off to this great group of folks that basically started with nothing.

When Mr. Allen and I started our building company our vision was to help small companies and entities be successful.

We are very thankful we were able to help J Bar C Cowboy Church with this endeavor.

Destin, Florida

2008-06-11T06:02:00.000-07:00

My daughters Ruth (in black) and Hannah at the place we stayed in Destin.

What a great trip and beautiful part of the world.

A Great American

2008-03-06T14:50:00.000-08:00

Im standing here with Benon Pipkin. A close friend of mine that helps me here at the farm.

Benon is a very special person. A highly decorated soldier during World War II.

Talk about endurance, Benon is now 84 years old and still puts in 8-10 hours a day farming, ranching, pasture mowing, you name it.

Needless to say, A man of color his age endured enormous discrimination and the hardest of times.

Definitely a living testimony to "The Greatest Generation". Thank you Benon for all the great years...

Another great day....Swimming, Hills and Driver's Education

2008-03-01T22:10:00.000-08:00

After a great Saturday morning swim at Baylor (2600m) I headed over to SMU to watch some close friends compete in the Dam swim meet.

From there I headed to White Rock Lake to meet up with Playtri to do hill repeats. It was killer...45 minutes continuous hill work. 12 laps of the Loving hill route. I got to meet and train with Ron Tribendis. He destroyed us in the hills. He just got back from New Zealand from Training Camp -- (called Epic).

Ahmed was parked at the peak of the hill on his moped shouting instructions and calling us a few select names....I loved it.

From there, back to the farm to teach my youngest daughter how to drive. It's great, we barrel through the pastures without a care in the world...

Life is good...

Have a great week.

MY YOUNGEST DAUGHTER

2008-02-18T09:46:00.000-08:00

DEFINITELY THE LIFE OF THE PARTY. GREAT SENSE OF HUMOR. LOVES ALL SPORTS, NATURE AND ANIMALS.

STARTER ON 7TH GRADE VOLLEYBALL AND BASKETBALL TEAMS AT DALLAS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL.

I LOVE YOU RUTH...

KH

MY FIRST BORN DAUGHTER

2008-02-17T06:36:00.000-08:00

ON STAGE AT THE DALLAS CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SPRING SHOW FEBRUARY 2008. SHE IS A STUDENT OF BALLET AND IT IS HER PASSION. I LOVE YOU HANNAH.

KH

MY LAST COMMERCIAL BUILDING PROJECT

2008-02-07T07:27:00.000-08:00

MY BUSINESS PARTNER (JERRY ALLEN -- OWNER OF EAGLE STEEL) AND I BUILT THIS BUILDING IN ENNIS, TEXAS. WE SOLD IT RECENTLY AND PROVIDED OWNER FINANCE TO A LOCAL COMPANY.

I HAVE BUILT NUMEROUS BUILDINGS BUT I TAKE GREAT PRIDE IN THIS ONE BECAUSE OF THE DESIGN AND OVERALL LOOK.

THIS PROJECT WAS VERY BENEFICIAL TO THE CITY OF ENNIS AND WILL MAKE A GREAT NEW HOME FOR A BOOMING FLEDGLING CONSTRUCTION COMPANY.

BUILDING HOMES

2008-02-06T16:28:00.000-08:00

MY BUSINESS PARTNER AND I BUILT THIS HOME 5 YEARS AGO IN FERRIS, TEXAS. WE SOLD IT IMMEDIATELY THEN TOOK IT BACK AND LEASED IT FOR 2 MORE YEARS.

HAPPILY WE ARE SELLING IT ONCE AGAIN OWNER FINANCE TO A LIEUTENANT ON THE FERRIS POLICE DEPARTMENT IN 3 WEEKS.

THIS WAS THE FIRST HOME (AND LAST) I EVER BUILT. OVERALL, IT WAS A GREAT EXPERIENCE AND I AM LOOKING FOR OTHER SUITABLE LOTS TO BUILD ON.

IM VERY HAPPY FOR THE POLICE OFFICER AND THE COMMUNITY.

BUTTERFLY SCHOOL ALMOST

2008-02-02T10:17:00.000-08:00

DAM (DALLAS AQUATIC MASTERS) HAD A BUTTERFLY SCHOOL SCHEDULED TODAY AT ST. MARKS. WELL, I WENT BUT WALKED THE WHOLE CAMPUS AND COULDNT FIND THE POOL. THERE WERE SIGNS FOR EVERYTHING BUT THE POOL. WHAT A BEAUTIFUL, AWESOME PLACE FOR LEARNING....I JUST COULDNT IMAGINE THE BENEFITS OF ATTENDING SCHOOL THERE..

FROM THERE I DROVE DOWN TO WHITE ROCK AND DID A 8 MILE MODIFIED LOOP. NORMALLY A LOOP AT WHITE ROCK IS 9.3 MILES BUT I CREATED A MODIFIED LOOP ON GOOGLE AND CATCH ALOT OF OFF-ROAD AND TRAILS. ITS AWESOME...

I DID OK FOR MY FIRST OUTDOOR RUN LITERALLY IN 2 MONTHS (8 MINUTE PACE). I HAVE BEEN HANGING OUT AT BAYLOR ALL WINTER AND JUMPING ON THE TREADMILL OR INDOOR TRACK ON RUN DAYS.

REGARDLESS, IM SO THANKFUL TO STILL BE RUNNING.....LIFE IS GOOD.

I SAW AND SPOKE TO MICHAEL DAWDY. HE FLEW BY -- IT LOOKED LIKE HE WAS DOING A 6:30 PACE IN PERFECT FORM.

I ALSO SAW CLINT BELL FROM A DISTANCE RIGHT WHEN I TOOK OFF. IT LOOKED LIKE HE WAS DOING A COOL DOWN FROM A 5K -- WHICH IM SURE HE JUST WON MOMENTS BEFORE. WHAT AN ATHLETE / RUNNER AND MOST IMPORTANTLY -- A GREAT PERSON.

KH

PUTTING IN TIME

2008-01-30T13:18:00.000-08:00

I HAVE BEEN DILIGENTLY PUTTING IN HOURS ON THE TRAINER.

MY TRAINER SESSIONS HAVE FOCUSED PRIMARILY ON POWER BY HOLDING A CERTAIN HEART RATE AND PUSHING A LARGE GEAR.

MY FIRST POST

2008-01-29T07:27:00.000-08:00

HELLO. I JUST CREATED THIS BLOG PAGE AND THIS IS MY FIRST POST.

THANK YOU FOR VISITING MY BLOG.