The ING marathon was this past weekend, and I had to experience what it was like in real life. Luckily for me the path literally ran past my building (kinda). Bryan and I watched the start on tv, so we knew how to time it to see the front-runners as they passed. The city had first street blocked off, so only people that lived on my side or traveled from far away were watching on the east side, on the west-literally people 4-5 deep cheering everyone on. I have to say this was one of my favorite experiences here, being outside with the perfect man, great weather, and people supporting this city and each other was pretty inspiring. Not to mention, running 26 miles was a bit inspiring also. Great day!
We saw some great sites, here are a few...Don't have pics of Apollo Anton Ono who literally ran 5 feet from us or the homeless man who was pretending to run in his dirty wife beater and full on beard-drinking the water provided! Hilarious.
This is Mary Keitany, who lead huge for the entire race until the last couple miles. We were around mile 16 and she had a 2 minute lead at this point. The cars/entourage above were the only company she had because her lead was so big!
This was the view from where we were.
These are the men's pros that ran by so fast we could barely get the pic. Can you imagine running 26 miles at a 5 min pace? The guy that won set the course record. I totally believe some bodies (not mine) were meant to be stealthy and run like this-others, 5k will do!
Can't say enough good things about this day, makes me motivate and plan for my next race. Thinking I'm going to try my hand at a half in Dallas in the spring. Can't wait!
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