My cute sister made shirts for everyone bearing the words, "Make it Work." Of course, those are Tim Gunn's words to designers in crunch time. (She actually put Tim Gunn's face on the back of the shirts too!) I was lucky to have so many of my family members there to cheer me on! This was taken at mile 16 (I think) as they stood ready and waiting to cheer me on.
Tim recently bought a nice road bike and takes every opportunity to ride it. Dave and Tim rode to different parts of the race from mile 16 to the end to give me a shout of encouragement.
Where am I? Not there yet...
They almost missed me. Here I am at mile 16 (I think) feeling so good! I couldn't believe how fresh I still felt. I was so grateful that my roommate, Jessi, and I ended up running almost the ENTIRE race together. I don't really know what I'm doing in this picture...
Jessi wanted to leave her gel pack with my family, so here I am tossing it back.
Here are Whitney and Eric holding up the sign Katie made. (Katie has great poster-making skills because she was a cheerleader at SFHS and got lots of practice mass producing little signs like these.) Love the poster! Thanks, Katie!
Here are the happy bikers showing off their very expensive bikes.... I want one.
This picture is great; I'm running with only a few blocks left to go. Katie finds me, and calls out to me, and then runs out to me. When I meet her eyes, I can see she is crying. Oh, Kathryn. Those little pregnancy hormones are really getting the best of you. She ran right out into the street and started running with me for a few strides. ...She tried to hold my hand but I wasn't having it. It's funny how when I passed my mom at mile 24ish, her cheers were sandwiched between, "I love you!" Katie's pep talk was very similar. It was cute. She's so much more nurturing than I am. That's why she's married and pregnant and I'm home alone blogging.
As I passed my family by, I threw my arms up and gave the "Finals Cheer" (only my immediate family knows what that sounds like.) I can't believe I had the energy or frame of mind to do that. I thought I would be feeling so much different emotionally than what I actually ended up feeling.
I had to post this picture of Katie in her custom-made shirt. There's a little baby monkey on her belly with the words, "Go, Aunt Charlotte!" around it.
Since there are already pictures of me in spandex up, I might was well finish up with some close-ups of my no-makeup face. So beautiful.
This is me thinking, "Wow... that was seriously fun!" I really can't believe how much I enjoyed that race. But, I'll get to that later.
4 comments:
Yes!! I love this story...in pictures! Don't forget, Katie may have mad poster making skills, but whose go-go-gaget arms were holding that thing high and proud so you could see?!
That was sweet to see you run the marathon. I need to start running and getting in shape.
Charlotte!!! You look like you had so much fun! I loved the custom shirts and I love Katie's prego belly!!
None of the things you said about me were true in this post except for my pass production of poster as a cheerleader at SFHS ....never knew it would come in sooo much use! ps Whitney I love your go-go gadget arms!
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