Army Ten Miler :: 32 days 1 hours 28 Minutes

We are so excited and are running, running, running.
The AWN team is training and making plans for our tent and "presence" at the Army Ten Miler.

I have personally been following George Banker's columns and training plan on Army Wife Network:
http://www.armywifenetwork.com/?p=2795. As he says, we are nearing the home stretch. Last weeks'
assignment was to run 4 times, one of those runs was 8 miles. My husband and I tied up laces and headed out Saturday morning. I never would have believed it if I didn't do it. WOW! What a long run...and that's not even ten miles. But, I know each of us will get there.

Here's a funny: I asked George about buying tennis shoes. "Is it too late?" He laughed; he said, "No, but please no tennis shoes. You're a runner who needs running shoes." I'm still learning.

So, along with the training, we've been pulling out all the stops to make sure people know "who we are!" (Like the cadence...everywhere we go, people want to know, who we are, so we tell them!)

To help with that, we've asked a personal friend of mine, Barbara Shiffler, master quilter, to come up with a Household 6 guidon for us to have posted at our tent. It is coming along nicely. Here are some pictures and a letter from Barb to us. Enjoy-- and get excited. We're running for you, to showcase Army Wives, the Household 6s from California to New York and overseas,  everywhere. Here's the letter, and I promise another update after another Army Wife and I support our Narmy (Navy/Army) families at the Navy 5 miler this Sunday.

Greetings From the Guidon Girl

Hey, y’all!

My name is Barbara Shiffler and I live in Statesboro, Georgia – and I’m making a Guidon for you! Um, I don’t even know how to pronounce it, but I guess that doesn’t matter.

As you may know, Star and I met when we were both Gym Rats here in South Georgia. She remembered that I am a quilter and asked me to help with your banner for the race. I’m glad to do so! Never mind that I have not made anything like this in my life – I know how to work with fabric and I think I can pull this off. Cross your fingers.
She asked me to send some “in progress” pictures so I will send a few. We really don’t have much time, so I may look frantic and/or tired but fear not – we’ll git ‘er done, as a Larry the Cable Guy says.
In case you are interested, I developed a pattern from your cartoon on the internet, sent it to Star and Tara for modifications and am now starting to make it. The first step is to “build” the letters using freezer paper as the template. I iron the seam allowances to the shiny side and the letter looks exactly like it will after it is attached. Cool, huh? In the picture, you don’t see me using scissors, do you? That’s because we use rotary cutters to cut fabric. They are just like pizza cutters but come in smaller sizes. Anyway, I take each letter and sew it by hand to the background and gradually pull the freezer paper out from behind it so that when I’m done the paper is totally gone.
Well, I could get pretty boring about all this – maybe I already have. Anyway, I want you to know I am hard at work for you and hope you will be pleased with the results. Oh – I almost forgot to tell you one more VERY IMPORTANT tool when I’m working in my studio. Music! Today’s selection is Jimmy Buffet’s Greatest Hits. I’m trying to hang onto the summer mood just a bit longer, although I won’t shed too many tears when the highs are no longer in the 90s!