Race Day

The pictures don't do the day justice. You don't have to look too close at the first one to see fear. I must have gone to the bathroom to pee about twenty times before we left the house. Even as we were leaving, I said "one more minute, I have to pee!" Gido said, "no you don't, you just think you have to." I was so nervous. I knew where I was going, but that was it. Didn't know anything else after that. My friend Stephanie told me to keep my own pace and not to try to run at the same speed as some of the other runners, and that I would probably pass a lot of them on the way back. She was right. I ran with Cheryl and Miriam. I couldn't believe my luck to find them in that crowd. We ran well together and we had a few good laughs. Stephanie even joined us for a few minutes. She wasn't able to run the full marathon today because she injured her heal. I loved running across the bridge, the weather was good and the company even better. My official time was 1:12:07:.4. I placed 974th out of 1238 runners. The very, very best part of the day was that Gido and Max were there with me.