On your mark, get set, go! Of the three familiar commands which start a race, my Mid-Texas Symphony running team is just about to take our marks. We are 12 runners, 8 of us now arrived in Gonzales, to be joined by the rest of the team in the early morning. Our team starts at 6:36. From that point until we hit the finish line just over 203 miles later, feet will be on the ground, morning, noon and night. This is the Texas Independence Relay, the third running of the race, and our third time to be a part of it. We run as the team Mid-Texas Symphony.
Crazy, you say? Insanity? Maybe so, but we look forward to this like some look forward to Thanksgiving or Christmas. You see, we love the challenge, we love cheering on our teammates and the other teams. We may even like that giddy feeling that comes at about 6am the second morning, after we've been in motion for almost 24 hours. For us, it's only another 6 hours to the finish line and then we can celebrate in exhaustion. Love it!
12 runners: 4 from San Antonio, 2 from Corpus Christi, 3 from Houston, and 1 each from Caldwell, San Marcos and Austin. Six of us are active musicians and the others have at one time or another played an instrument or they just love music. But the bottom line is that we all love running, and over the years we have found ourselves loving team running. As I heard Willie Nelson say the other night on Soundstage: "We're enjoying this a lot more than we thought we would."
Wish us luck.
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