Rouge to Orleans

(Location - Natchitoches...........member of the NSUWP Advanced Institute)

In the fall of 2012 myself and some very ambitious beautiful women (an one crazy man) set out on a journey of 126.2 miles. The Rouge to Orleans is a relay race that begins at the break of dawn in downtown Baton Rouge at the USS Kidd and ends in New Orleans at the Audubon Park.  Living together for 24 hours in a 16 passenger van was an experience all its own but the real experience for me began the moment I took my first steps beside the river in Baton Rouge.............

I began running in 2010 when our daughter was diagnosed with Stage IV high risk Neuroblastoma. Running was my medication - my way of dealing with cancer when I couldn't deal any more. I had never been a runner before - I thought it would always be "cool" to say "I'm a runner........LOL.......I totally got more than what I expected!"

Before Rouge to Orleans I had run several races including a couple of 1/2's and even an obstacle course race. But nothing could have prepared me for the person I discovered on that long lonely cool night on the Mississippi's levee just me and my thoughts.............

(this writing is a work in progress...................)