Wherever you live in the world so wide
We wish you a nook on the sunny side
With much love and little care
A little purse with money to spare
Your own little hearth when day is spent
In a little house with hearts content.
- Old Scottish wedding toast
Congratulations! My eyes welled up!
MouseSpeed, please do NOT let Jamin know you are a female on this board. ;)
TxRunner...Great story. I expect the baby announcement will be on letsrun in about 16 to 24 months!!
How do you put up with the coarseness around here? Bravo!
congrats! Great news.
This is really cool! Thanks for the details, txRUNNERgirl, and congratulations to you and Nikeman!
I'm never really happy when other ppl get married. It just makes me feel lonelier? I'm happy if they're happy but i usually am inspired by stories of people who are happy in ways other than marraige since the dominant narrative these days that I'm flooded with is that marraige will make you complete and I'm trying to release that pressure from my romantc life.
Is it supposed to inspire those of us who aren't married that magic will happen to us too?
Pretty awesome story you will have into your old age. Congrats!
I undertand.
"The bus came by and you got on, that's when it all began..."
Congrats!
runn wrote:
Congratulations! My eyes welled up!
Same here. I just hate it. It's so hard to be a vicious troll with threads like this.
A wedding with a letsrun splash page and Alan Webb as a guest. That's NOT FAIR!
So, in summary: Boy quietly shows interest in girl. Girl feels safe, and gets to like boy. Girl looks for job near boy, and gets one. Girl and Boy live happily every after.
txRUNNERgirl wrote:
Mouse Speed wrote:This is real?! Incredible!! Can someone please give more details? They went from being LRC message board posters to fb friends to married with tons of LRC runners as guests ? More details please!
Once upon a time, I was a washed-up, injured collegiate runner. One day I heard some teammates mention LetsRun since around this time (2005) was the scandal with a certain CU runner's racist comments online. Naturally I went to LetsRun to catch up on the details. Then I clicked on the message board and went down the rabbit hole.
Since I couldn't run for a while because of injuries, LetsRun was my fix. I became obsessed with learning everything I could about training and injury prevention, as well as became much more interested in following the professional side of the sport. Later in college I interned with USATF and did freelance media work, so that is where I started to make a lot of connections and friends.
After I graduated, I moved back home and worked at a local running store and continued freelancing, but was still in need of a full-time job. Around this same time, Dave added me as a friend on Facebook and included a message that said he was "nikeman" from LetsRun. We started chatting about LetsRun and running and went from there. I was used to having people contact me via Facebook because they knew who I was through LetsRun, so at first I saw Dave as just a friendly runner who we shared some mutual friends with. Over the course of the next few months, we IMed almost non-stop because we clicked so much, and soon I liked him as more than a friend.
I had already been planning a trip to Oregon that summer to look for work because I knew I wanted to move to the northwest (Eugene, Portland or Seattle). Dave lived in Idaho at the time, so we decided to meet in person during the 2009 US Track & Field Championships in Eugene. Our first date started with a run on Pre's Trails. He also invited me to join his Rainier to Pacific Relay team that summer, so we spent more time together there. By the end of the summer, I didn't find any good career prospects, so I went back home. The next week, I got a call for the 1 job in Idaho I had applied for, which happened to be where Dave lived, so the rest is history.
We finally both moved to Portland and this is where we plan to stay. We've met many good friends here who love running as much as we do. And sorry guys, just about all of the women are taken, including the one in the pic.
Congratulations! I've been married to my hot intelligent witty hard-working babe of a wife for 30 years (and no PNSO) so it can happen for nerdy runner types. Best of everything to the two of you.
txRUNNERgirl wrote:
Dreams become reality tomorrow when nikeman and I tie the knot. We won't keep you updated on the PNSO.
Congrats on embarking on the ultimate endurance event . . .
MD Phan wrote:
Congrats on embarking on the ultimate endurance event . . .
The Color Me Rad 5K?
Congratulations txRUNNERgirl!!
As another woman who has lurked/posted on this messageboard for ~10 years now, I admire that you have dealt with so many anonymous posters on here while you yourself have not been anonymous. I've purposely avoided making any mention of my gender (except on some training specific threads) or anything that would ID me because I've seen how vicious some of the trolls on here can be. I actually know many women on here who lurk/post but feel similarly in terms of not wanting to give away their identity. Props to you for handling the trolls so well over all these years!
So when will you post pics of your feet?
So you are also going to practice PNSO? Women can be evil.
txRUNNERgirl wrote:
Dreams become reality tomorrow when nikeman and I tie the knot. We won't keep you updated on the PNSO.
rojo wrote:
Wow. Did Weldon get lucky? "Fun time" leaves a lot to be interpreted. He seems to be very upbeat about the wedding.
When I had to leave the wedding early, on the way out I walked up to Alan Webb and said, "You're responsible for finding Weldon a woman tonight."
-Rojo
Not to pry, but....I thought wejo got married or at least engaged?? Or was that you rojo ? Or was the whole thing my imagination?
wejo got divorced
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