1. The St. Charles Community website offered a nice lead-in to my post on Picasso’s Coffee House in St. Charles.

2. The Cuba Mural Project blog wrote an post about me, linking to my post on the Cuba, MO Race to the Rocker, a 4-mile road race culminating at the world’s largest rocking chair.

3. My wonderful mom created this card for me, directing many, many readers from her successful paper crafting blog to smalltowngirlsguide.com.

Thank you St. Charles Community, Cuba Mural Project, and MommaG for making Friday a very good day for smalltowngirlsguide!

Cuba, Missouri, home of the largest rocking chair in the world (which I blogged about last summer), has a 4-mile road race that ends at the giant rocking chair. The race will be held on March 27th, 2010.

@meghoulihan @jenn_if_er and @soleilune have been my inspiration lately as I’ve started training for my first half marathon. I ran four miles for the first time last Monday, and I ran five for the first time last night.

I see LOTS of road races in St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri, but most of the small town, MO races are 1-mile fun runs or 5Ks. The Race to the Rocker is so totally up my ally…

I mean seriously – It’s a road race in a small central Missouri town that ends at a 40-foot rocking chair. It doesn’t get much better than that. So am I gonna run it? Absolutely.

Race to the Rocker, here I come.

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To see my Summer 2009 post on the World’s Largest Rocking Chair, click here.

For more information on Race to the Rocker, click here.

To download a Race to the Rocker registration form, click here.

Are you interested in running the Race to the Rocker? Let me know so that we can meet before or after the race!