Well, Cecily, I’m sure you were looking forward to a closer picture … but everything else the race posted has their proof mark going through my legs!

So this is all you’re getting for now. Hopefully my friends will come through with some better pictures once they are downloaded/developed!

I am impressed, though — this race had a lot of cameras on the course. Usually I only appear in a handful, but there are a lot this time, and even one or two I might consider purchasing from them.

I was pretty bad about documenting the weekend myself. I only took a few pictures of pigs!

It was a long drive, and I’m tired so I’ll probably write more later.

I just wanted to pop in and add some detail now. It wasn’t easy to text message while running/walking!

(Oh, and there were two ‘finished’ posts because I got an alert that the first one didn’t go through, when obviously it did!)

Miraculously, both knees held out. No knee pain while running, and no knee pain today!

The only noticeable pain during the race was my feet, which is usually happens. I think maybe during training, the knee pain draws the focus away from my feet?

It’s possible that my shoes don’t have enough cushion for a race this long, but, I’ve tried just about every shoe out there and nothing else gives me enough support!

Well, I think I’ll be sticking to shorter runs for now, anyway.

Of course, by shorter I mean half-marathons (13.1 miles). And I’m sure I’ll do the metric marathon (16.3 miles) in the fall … but that’s still quite a bit shorter and easier to train for!

We did all of our training using the Galloway run/walk method, keeping a slow and steady pace. We just wanted to finish, we weren’t trying to be fast — and were hoping for a 5:30 finish.

We finished at 5:25!

I had enough in me to sprint at the finish, and I probably could have finished a little faster, but I’m still happy. I feel good, and I stuck with my running buddies.

To celebrate, tomorrow night we’re replacing our usual evening run with a pedicure!