Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Leg Two

Posted by Abby Marie at 10:46 AM

Next I thought of someone I knew in Jr. High and High School but who I haven’t seen in 3 years. He was in all my choir classes, and a few others, and we became great friends. He ran track in high school and was part of our high school's amazing 4X4 relay team. He was fast…way fast. I had a lot of friends on the track team mostly because of my association with this kid. His name is Chris Bringhurst. He has been telling me for YEARS that I should be a runner. One day we were on a bus for some reason and he said, “Abby, you have HUGE calves!” He assured me that was a compliment. I looked at him funny and told him I’m not sure that is the kind of compliment a girl wants to hear. He said that means I would make a good runner. Once, the track team slept over on my front lawn because they wanted to have a yard sale in a high traffic area. I live right on a busy road so they used our front lawn. His coach talked to my dad and found out he was a runner, and then I never heard the end of Chris and Coach Benson telling me I should be a runner. Well Chris, I’m finally a runner—so leg 2 is for you. I think he is in Ukraine on a mission right now, so I’ll have to send him a letter or something. If anyone reading this knows for sure where Chris is right now, tell me please!


Leg 2: 8.1 miles, gradual uphill, at about 1:30 AM; dedicated to Chris Bringhurst.






3 comments:

Stefanie Elyse said...

YOU are cool :)

June 17, 2009 at 4:04 PM
Suzie said...

Awesome. Awesome Chris, awesome Abby, awesome run. Thats all I have to say about this.

June 17, 2009 at 4:42 PM
Hannah said...

What are you going to do with these signs? run with them in your hands?

June 17, 2009 at 5:04 PM

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