The trails at Run Rabbit Run in Steamboat.

Run Rabbit Run comes in just four days and I am looking at 100,000 steps up and down the Rockies–more or less. The run is 50 miles from the base of the lifts at Steamboat out along the divide trails to the top of Rabbit Ears Peak and back.

I have been on the trails the last few days and actually I look forward to race day.

One key for the race was given me by a little Latino girl one afternoon when I was training in Champaign. I was plugging up and down our little sled hill moaning in my heart about the heat and humidity.

This little girl came bursting out of our “Prairie Farm” petting zoo and began skipping up and down sled hill with glee. Her last time flying down the hill, she screamed, “Mama, this is the best day of my life!”

It was one of those God moments for me.

And right there I affirmed “This is the best day of my life!” and had a great workout.

This Saturday will be the best day of my life–all 100,000 steps of it!