{"id":441,"date":"2009-04-26T23:16:09","date_gmt":"2009-04-27T03:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.handsful.com\/?p=441"},"modified":"2009-04-26T23:21:52","modified_gmt":"2009-04-27T03:21:52","slug":"1425-miles-and-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/archives\/441","title":{"rendered":"142.5 miles and done!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Standing in front of the Atlantic ocean…coast to coast completed!\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Let me back up a bit.\u00c2\u00a0 With about 26 miles to go, the guys had\u00c2\u00a0to cross a BIG bridge called the Shands.\u00c2\u00a0 This bridge crosses the whole St. Johns river, about 1 1\/2miles long and it’s very busy with traffic.\u00c2\u00a0 Just as they were getting ready to cross, a State Trooper drove by.\u00c2\u00a0 Chris (their servant-hearted friend who drove the van, fed them, kept them hydrated, etc.) flagged him down, and the guys had a police escort complete with lights and sirens!!\u00c2\u00a0 Here is the shot Chris got from behind…<\/p>\n

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How cool is that?!?<\/p>\n

Here are more pictures from the celebration.\u00c2\u00a0 All the parents, some of the other Real Life Groups, and\u00c2\u00a0the Jr. High Pastor, Bill and his family were there to show their support and love for this great group of guys.\u00c2\u00a0 We are all so proud of them.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The kids made signs for daddy…Ethan noticed his T for J mistake in the truck on the way.\u00c2\u00a0 No big deal, dude, dad will love it.\u00c2\u00a0 He did.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Gregg and Randy, giving out Coast to Coast certificates<\/p>\n

Randy said the hardest part of the whole 2 days was the last bridge, coming over the intercoastal waterway.\u00c2\u00a0 That bridge is STEEP, and they were dreading it.\u00c2\u00a0 Plus, it was within 5 miles of the end and the guys were gassed.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the dad’s (Luke’s) drove to the bridge, parked, walked up to the very top, and stood on the side.\u00c2\u00a0 As\u00c2\u00a0the bikers came into view,\u00c2\u00a0he started cheering and yelling, encouraging them to make it up that\u00c2\u00a0bridge.\u00c2\u00a0 That brings tears to my eyes.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Randy also said several of the other parents drove with them, stopping to cheer them on, driving a little farther down and doing it all again.\u00c2\u00a0 Love it.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

This was an amazing weekend for these men and boys…what an accomplishment!\u00c2\u00a0 They learned much about what it truly means to endure and then come out the other side victoriously.\u00c2\u00a0 They learned the most about relying on God’s strength, when you have none left.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

After the certificates were given out, everyone headed home.\u00c2\u00a0 As we packed up, I got this…<\/p>\n

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I couldn’t help it, she was so intensely shoveling and looking so darn cute, I had to snap a picture.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

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I also got this…I’d been picturing this photo in my head for a while, just needed to get to the beach to snap it.\u00c2\u00a0 Might try again (and have Abbey lay off the orange nail polish?), but I like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Standing in front of the Atlantic ocean…coast to coast completed!\u00c2\u00a0 Let me back up a bit.\u00c2\u00a0 With about 26 miles to go, the guys had\u00c2\u00a0to cross a BIG bridge called the Shands.\u00c2\u00a0 This bridge crosses the whole St. Johns river, about 1 1\/2miles long and it’s very busy with traffic.\u00c2\u00a0 Just as they were getting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-trips-vacations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.handsful.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}