shoes with our time chips ready to go!
heading out early Saturday morningA BIG THANKS to Derek's sister and husband!
Blake and Laurissa spent the night with our kids at our place in Syracuse and let us use their comfy home down in Provo to crash Friday night. The kids had a blast and love their Uncle Blake and Aunt Rissy!
Fuzzy shot of the starting line.
Fuzzy shot of the starting line.Notice it is very dark.
That is because it is very early.
The first bus left Provo at 3:30 am!
Not sure if I'm ready!
Totally ready!
Crazies.
Not sure if I'm ready!
Totally ready!
Crazies.There was a shortage of porta-poties at the start line so pretty soon people were (trying) hopping the barb-wire fence and semi-secluding themselves to take care of business. At the front (there were like 1500+ marathoners) people just dropped their drawers and kept their precious place in the line up
(guess they were out to win!)
We had to go too.
But modesty matters to us.
We waited for the crowd to start running and then started our race about 20 minutes after the official clock time. No worries we had a time chip (see picture #1) to record when we officially started and stopped.
Drenched.
It rained hard and harder for the first 10 miles.
Drenched. 
It rained hard and harder for the first 10 miles.Otherwise the day was perfect--cloudy and about 55!
We were soaked.
Beautiful scenery running down Provo Canyon.
The looooong road ahead.
More lovely scenery.
Provo River.
Derek was enjoying the view.
Our biggest fans.
Uncle Blake and Aunt Laurissa helped the kids make signs for us!
Thanks!
Coming around to the finish. Trying hard to look good the last .2!
Slapping five with Camille.
The kids wanted to run the finish with us but we had to shooo them back to the sidelines.
So close.
Done.
We were soaked.
Beautiful scenery running down Provo Canyon.
The looooong road ahead.
More lovely scenery.
Provo River.
Derek was enjoying the view.
Our biggest fans.
Uncle Blake and Aunt Laurissa helped the kids make signs for us!
Thanks!
Coming around to the finish. Trying hard to look good the last .2!
Slapping five with Camille.
The kids wanted to run the finish with us but we had to shooo them back to the sidelines.
So close.
Done. For those of you who must know--our time was about 15-20 minutes better than recorded.
Elena saw our medals and said, "Mom, but you did not win!" 
We did it!
Elena saw our medals and said, "Mom, but you did not win!" I know.
Camille said, "We had to wait a loooong time!"
I know.
We did it!When's the next one??
Just kidding, Derek.
(that makes him sooo mad when I say that:)
4 comments:
you guys rock!
You guys are amazing. I don't know if I have an ounce of desire to run a marathon! But you made it look kind of fun:) Congratulations!
Not only did you run a marathon, you looked awesome while doing it! Great job.
I love that you guys did this together. I keep telling Tyler we should run together. When I told him you guys were running a marathon and that I would love to train for a half marathon, he looked at me and said, "My goal is a 5k." Gotta love it. We're proud of you guys!
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