As Promised - Day One

My wife and I arrived in Austin on Friday, February 16th around 11:30 am - of course we had to get up at at 4:30 to catch the early flight. This was one day that we were helped by a delayed flight. Parking was tough because of the big snow storm we had prior to leaving. We had 21 inches on snow on the Wednesday prior to leaving. It was really kind of cool - we have not had a good size snow storm in a while.
When we landed in Dallas, which was our connecting airport, it was 30, when we got to Austin it was 40. We were hoping to get to a little warmer client. My mom lives in Georgetown, so we got our car and started in that direction. It was at this point that Yahoo maps proved wrong so we took a little detour while trying to get to our destination. Took mom to Chili's for a nice lunch (only had to get on two business calls while at lunch) and then had a nice visit at her place. My brother also lives in Georgtown so we drove over and settled in for the night.We had a great time eating a little Italian food and getting caught up. Got to bed pretty early since we had been up for so long. Ended up getting a pretty good nights sleep. It is always a treat to get to visit the family in Georgetown, it seems as though we just start where we left off. As you can see in the picture, it ended up being a really nice day, the temp went up to 65, so my hopes were raised that race day would be warm.
I decided to stop taking my muscle relaxers on Friday so that I could have some time to detox - they were starting to make me feel a little groggy all day. I was hoping that this with some walking would loosen my back up a bit. It seemed to be working. When I woke up on Saturday, I was sure that I was going to run the race - I was not sure I was going to be able to finish though. More about Saturday in the next post.