A group of friends from work decided to enter to run in the Kansas City Marathon (as a relay team). There were 5 of us, each running a portion of the race somewhere between 3.3 miles and 6.9 miles. I ran the 6.9 mile leg.
I hadn't really been training all that vigorously, I guess I figured my "athletic" ability would get me through the majority of it. Somehow I forgot that I really am not a runner. But, I felt great the morning of the run and was pretty excited to do it.
We entered under the team name "tacky cardias", since we all work in Cardiology. We ran with mismatched crazy socks and fun hair bows. The run took the majority of the day by the time we grabbed lunch afterwards, but it was a fun experience. Brian was in Oklahoma golfing that weekend, so I had Grammie watch Colin. Man, was I pooped when I had to deal with Colin all by myself that afternoon and the next day. That kid can wear me out anyway, let alone after a long run like that!
Here are a few pics of the day:
Okay, so these are not in order, but this is the 5 of us finishing the run.
If you look really hard in the middle of the pic, that's me on the right and my girlfriend Ashley on the left. She joined me the last little bit of my run to finish with me. That was a nice way to end my run!
EARLY in the morning, still very dark out, before the race started. Don't we look tacky?!
The backs of our shirts indicated our length of run. Little did we know, they would change the course a bit and we would all be running a slightly different route. Oh well!
We had such a great time. It was very good motivation for us to all keep on our running schedules. Way to go Tacky Cardias!
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