Flashback..... My marathon finally arrived 9-25-2010

On September 25th was not only my marathon it was also our 5 year anniversary of living in TN and what better way to celebrate than to do a marathon.  Okay that was not the reason behind the marathon but hey why not.  This marathon was a big talk in our house there where times when I wanted to quit and not go.  I was affraid I was not going to survive the walk, or even be able to keep up the required pace to stay in the marathon.  When signing up for this marathon I signed up with some ladies at the kids school and we were going to do it together.  Well towards the end of training about a week away from the marathon I realized that wether these women showed up to do this marathon with me, I was going to have to finsh this marathon by myself.  After all I was the only that could make myself cross the finish line no matter who was there or who wasn't.  So the morning of the marathon I got up and got dressed and rode to the marathon with my friend Terri.  When the marathon started I thought oh my gosh how am I going to do this.  So at mile marker 1 I turned on my zen put my head phones on and just took off walking and didn't stop.  When I got to about mile marker 6 I was getting pretty warn out and was not sure how much longer I could go.  Well it just so happens I was starting to keep pace with another walker named Lisa and we paired up and just started talking and walking together.  With that assistance I was able to keep my mind on other things and able to finsh that marathon.  Here are some pictures from my marathon.

Here is my bib that I wore in the marathon

Here is my clothes laid out and ready to go 

All dressed and ready to go

 Ok I look to happy at 6 am but I was ready to go

 At the 3 mile marker I was about 48 minutes into the marathon


Terri and I after we completed the marathon

Showing my metal to the kids

family picture time


This is what you do have a 3 hour and 32minute marathon