flashback friday

i feel a little embarrassed about posting this picture on the world wide web, BUT it does have great memories.  this was taken after the dallas white rock half marathon in 2000.  we are with our friends tara and isaac, who are now married...and who we are still very close to.  charlie and i really started our relationship running together.  it is one of the first things we started doing together and it has continued to this day.  we started training for this before we were really 'officially' dating, but by this picture...we were pretty well together.  on a side note...love charlie's hair here..there is so much of it..i think he would hate running with that much hair these days.  we did not run the race together, i let him go ahead because i knew he wanted to go faster.  it is funny, because now, after more years together, i would probably want him to run with me...because we train together, etc. But, back then, being at the first of our relationship, i just wanted to seem so independent :)  since then, we have run a marathon together, many more halfs, and completed an adventure race together.  this is one of my favorite things about us, together...hopefully many more races to come! (if i ever stop being pregnant)