We have literally hundreds of people praying for my dad today and all week long. He is having open heart surgery an minute now.

Many of you have asked exactly what surgery he is having.

Two things:

1. MAZE. Click for info.

2. Valve repair (or replacement). Click for info.

Do me a favor. Leave a comment for my Dad and I’ll share them with him after the surgery! And more than anything please pray your guts out!

Its a super short race…a 5K (3.1 miles) but its full of crazy obstacles like a creek, cargo netting, cars, fire you jump over, and at the end a mud swamp. Typically I could run a 5K in about 21 minutes. Today’s course took me 38 minutes. I was going slow and having a ton of fun.

Most fun moment in the race: jumping over cars and fire. That was AWESOME.

Best moment of the race: when I BOLTED through the muddy creek past tons of people (because I had on the best shoes ever for something like this). One girl I passed in the creek screamed “stop splashing.” I just splashed more. Really? You’re in the wrong race lady…

Check out the pics!

Going to a cable park.

Let me explain…

If you’ve never tried wakeboarding, you should. Its a blast! But a lot of people either don’t have access to a boat or don’t live close to a lake.

So someone invented “cable parks.”

Cable wakeboarding is simply wakeboarding while being pulled by an overhead cableski system. It’s definitely the coolest addition to the distinguished list of extreme sports throughout the world, because it combines the best of the extreme nature of wakeboarding without the need for (or expense of) a boat.

There are over 140 cable parks all over the world, and more are on the drawing board

It’s drastically less expensive compared to all the costs involved with boat wakeboarding, with a lot less hassle. And, best of all, you can do every trick on the cable that can be done behind the boat, and more.

Cable parks are the PERFECT gateway for anyone wanting to try wakeboarding. And you don’t have to do tricks…its fun and enjoyable to just get out and take laps around the cable lake.

If you live in the San Antonio area, the closest cable park is Texas Ski Ranch, just north of New Braunfels on I-35…and I’ll go with you. Just say when.

You’re welcome!

His newest gig?

Getting painted pink and running to raise money for breast cancer research.

LOVE IT.

My dad. Seriously. He is my HERO.

I cannot believe he has run over 10,000 miles. The only reason I am a runner (and still in shape) is because he challenges me. Every. Single. Day.

Check out this video about his running. INCREDIBLE.

You were born 5 weeks early and spent the first 8 days of your life in the hospital. It was scary for Momma and Da-O, but thousands of people were praying for you and God healed you!

Before we knew it, you were home and HAPPY! We cuddled a LOT!

I had a blast hanging out with you (and I still do!) I’ll never forget holding you, listening to you coo and make all those fun baby noises. Your head was kind of a funny shape because they delivered you with suction. I still can’t believe how TINY you were!

You immediately LOVED all of your grandparents. Here you are with “Shug.” You stuck your tongue out for about 22 hours each day.

This is the first time you ever made the sad face. I’ll never forget it. You could stick that lip WAAAAAYYYY out!

I apologize for letting your Momma dress you up like a chicken. You were cute, but you are the furthest thing from a chicken I’ve ever seen. I can’t ever remember meeting such a courageous little boy! Always remember this: Overalls are a sin.

I took you to your first Baseball game as soon as possible. You clapped and giggled the entire game. It was a BLAST! We’ve got many many more games to go to together!

You learned this from me. Shhhhhh…don’t tell Momma. I have a lot more bad stuff to teach you.

Here is another shot from a baseball game we went to with Uncle Ty. You are the cutest stinking kid in the WORLD.

This is from our first trip to the circus. It was a BLAST…but honestly, I think Momma had more fun that you and I put together.

For a while, you got kind of chunky because you kept eating massive amounts of pork. Hilarious!

I love you buddy! Happy third birthday!!!

50 kilometers = 31.0685596 miles

Yikes. 31. Miles.

According the Cowtown website, there are 18 men in my division. Coming off of my knee injury & a terrible race season, I am just hoping to finish.

I’ll be running with my dad and my good friend Wendy Oglesby. I’ll also have the good old iPhone again, so watch my twitter & facebook for video updates.

http://www.twitter.com/cadillaczak

http://www.facebook.com/cadillaczak

So, as long as I have a signal, I’ll be Tweeting live updates and streaming live video during the race tomorrow. It starts at 5:40am Eastern time.

Watch my twitter feed HERE or facebook page here for the updates.

Anytime I am live streaming video, you’ll see a Tweet or a Facebook status update with a link that will take you straight to the live video feed.

• Part 1: The Start and Epcot
• Part 2: Magic Kingdom Park
• Part 3: Disney’s Animal Kingdom Park and Disney’s Hollywood Studios
• Part 4: The Finish Line and Epcot

• Had a blast this weekend. We had friends from Lubbock in for the San Antonio Rock N Roll Marathon (thanks Oglesbys! had a blast!) so the house was packed!
• My Dad was in town too for the race.
• I ran my worst race time ever. Nice.
• I do have a couple of “excuses.” First, training for marathons and planting a church at the same time is TOUGH.
• Second, I stopped to help one guy during the race that was screaming bloody murder. He keep screaming “CRAMP! CRAMP!” It took about 10 minutes for a medical team person to show up. That knocked my time down a little.
• I was reminded once more (as I am with every marathon) that 26.2 miles is a LONG STINKING WAY to run!
• Today, my legs and hips are sore like nobody’s business and I have some nasty blisters on my toes.
• NEVER EVER run in Nikes. Sheesh.
• Heard from my team that it was an incredible day at our Revolution Launch Team Meeting yesterday. John Atkinson spoke to the team and did an amazing job! Thanks John!
• Huge week coming up! Hoping to have most everything prepped and ready to go for our December 13th service by the end of the week.
• Pumped up about the holidays!
• Looking for creative ways to serve our community for Christmas. Anyone have any good ideas?

I’m not going to lie. This blog post by my buddy Rafael (The Fat Trail Runner) got me pumped up and encouraged the heck out of me. Why? Because he pretty much hit the nail on the head. I want to be everything he said…and more for the people that God puts in my life.

Thanks Rafael. I needed that. If you ever see me slowing down, smack me around a little bit.

Back to the run…I was looking forward to watching the sunrise as I ran. Just as the sun began to break the horizon, a doe ran right in front of me. She was so close that I could have slapped her back as she went by, no joke…I would have smacked into her if I hadn’t seen her. And she was in no hurry.

It felt like God was saying to me “you’re waiting for the sunrise. You’ve seen tons of sunrises. I have something even better…you just wait.”

I spent the rest of my run thinking about Heaven. And all I got is this: we have NO IDEA how incredible its going to be. You just wait…it gets better.

26.2 miles. Bring it. I’m shooting for under four hours this time.

I don’t have to start trainging until September. But I might go take some boxing lessons. This race looks like it’ll be in close quarters…I might need to brush up on my full contact skills.

Check it. The whole course, in 3 minutes. Nice.