Camp Run IT
One of AT&T’s IT people is running the Marine Corps Marathon Sunday, October 28th. My sister, Suzie Talley Moore, can be tracked online or by text message at the following site: http://www.doitsports.com/results/MSG-signup.tcl?sub_event_id=2941 Enter name: Suzie Talley for email or text messages to your phone on where she is Sunday during the race. Go Su!
October 27th, 2007 at 9:20 am
Have a great run Sue!!
October 27th, 2007 at 8:47 pm
From Sherri:
I spoke with Suzie a few times today as she was driving to D.C. She went to the emergency room a couple of nights ago with a kidney stone. Actually, her son Scott drove her, not the stone. It drove her crazy. It’s still with her and she’s still running the race. She said, “Please tell our family that if they’re tracking me, my times won’t be very fast because of this!” She promised me she would drop out of the race if that kind of pain returned.
Suzie is the toughest person I know. Not the toughest woman, the toughest person! One time (not in band camp) ..in a triathlon in NC, she crashed on the bike and broke her arm and pelvis. She finished the bike portion of the race, then started running. She made it a mile before she just couldn’t continue. Doctors streamed into her hospital room to see the woman over 40 who ran a mile on a broken pelvis. Then, after finishing third in her age group in Ironman Australia, she crossed the finish line wanting more. Everytime I’ve gone to see her in the hospital after having children (three times), she’s had no medication and has been up and around eating M&Ms and drinking Coke, asking casually, “Hey, Sher, seen the baby yet?”
Have a great run in the morning, Su! MCM was made for hard core athletes like you!
October 27th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
Yea she has some sort of superhuman pain tolerance. I’ve passed a few kidney stones and they had me curled up in the fetal position crying in pain. It really never occured to me to just get up and go run a marathon.
October 28th, 2007 at 2:30 pm
I can run a 5K.
October 28th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
With kidney stones?
October 29th, 2007 at 12:32 am
Sherri says:
Suzie told me she “hit the wall” at mile 22. Her satellite time was 3:39:20, but she says you can knock about two minutes off that for a more accurate time. It took her about two minutes just to wade through the crowd of runners to reach the starting line. In her first mile, someone in front of her took off their shirt and threw it on the ground. Su tripped on it and fell. She was fairly scraped up and bruised. Everyone falls down. It’s the winners who get back up and go. Nice time, Su—write a race report with other details. Bet this one was stationed and manned at aid stations like no other with the Marines in charge.
October 29th, 2007 at 8:25 am
Go SUZIE!
And Danny, I once ran a 5K with only ONE leg…so yes…bring on da stones!
October 29th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
I thought that was a picture of me on the track at AC Steere!
Oh, and can you post a pic of the stone when it passes?
October 29th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
I’ll bet you were really tired after that one legged 5K.
K-stones are actually kind of pretty looking. I’ve started a necklace.
October 30th, 2007 at 7:30 am
Oh really?
The necklace sounds neat, but let’s you and I sell them as Christmas ornaments…just to be festive.
Our tagline: “Get stoned”.
October 30th, 2007 at 10:55 pm
Go Suzie! Who is Suzie?
October 31st, 2007 at 8:24 am
Suzie is Sherri’s sister (I can’t remember if it is suSie or suZie)…some “friend” YOU are.
November 1st, 2007 at 7:22 pm
Suzie, I used to be obsessed enough to run with kidney stones, but I got over it. What really helped me realize there is more to life was beating you in SOOOOOOOO many races.
November 1st, 2007 at 7:58 pm
Suzie and the above “Chip” raced against each other in Shreveport Summer Swim League in the 1970s! Clearly, Suzie is working in Detroit and hasn’t seen this comment yet!
November 1st, 2007 at 8:02 pm
Chip,
Glad to see you not quite so obsessed any more - maybe some old pickup truck that you tried to outrace on Lakeshore Dr. had some influence with that decision. (hope this same Chip)
However, SuZie might have taken you on our last trip to Panama City Beach (quiet a warm day if I recall) when we all raced - seems like I saw guy that looked just like you bent over on side of road heaving…..I don’t know - maybe that was not you or you may have just catching your breath!!!!
Latte’
ps - Suzie might have taken me too as it seems my 10 min per mile pace for the run was somewhat in excess of my PR!!!!
November 2nd, 2007 at 12:05 am
Chip is catching more than his breath. Wait ’til Suzie emerges.
November 2nd, 2007 at 10:16 pm
I can run 5000 miles without stopping and no water. I could prove it but I don’t feel like it.
November 3rd, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Just in from Deeetroit! Loving this!
This will be a bit different from the “Have you seen any body better than me” race reports I normally get.
Funny images popped in my head when I fell like I was like that old lady on the Life Alert commecial with a kidney stone reaching for some life alert just out of my reach. I thought if I just lay on the course like a june bug with my arms/legs in the air and squirm, some Marine will eventually scoop me off the course. And then I thought, what would my friend Chip do?!? I decided to get off the ground finish the race anyway. (jk Chip!)
I have run many events.. Boston Marathon/Iron Man Austrailia/Goldsboro YMCA Sprint Triathlon (jk) and by far this was the most inspirational race event I have ever participated in or seen!! If starting at the Pentagon this year wasn’t enough, the Marines were 20-30 deep at each aid station waiting on us! Serving us! Cleaning up after us. 20,650 Runners! Lined up along the course cheering us on…hundreds if not thousands of Marines and their families.
Life is short but also a daring adventure or nothing at all.
In the words of Guy Clark:
He is one of those the knows that life is just a leap of faith.
You got to spread your arms and hold your breath and always trust you cape.
~Suzie~