It's funny. Sometimes if I share with someone that I'm running a half marathon, they'll say, "Wow--that's crazy!"
Maybe so. But if I'm crazy, I'm crazy with a whole bunch of other people. Thousands of people. Hundreds of thousands of people. There's something to this "running thing," folks.
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Beth (sister), Todd (brother), Drew (Cliff's cousin), Tricia (me), Cliff (husband), Andrea (neighbor) |
After logging roughly
200 training miles, I finished my 3rd consecutive Green Bay Half Marathon on Sunday, and it was a beautiful day. It was my husband's 9th. So, we're consecutively
half crazy. :)
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Cliff running his 9th GB Half Marathon. Mile 4. |
We had an extraordinary start-line moment with 26 seconds of silence in remembrance of the Boston tragedy on April 15. Every runner received a blue bracelet that said "Boston 2013; We run as one." You could have heard a pin drop.
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26 seconds of silence at the start. |
My sweet neighbor, Andrea, ran her first
full crazy marathon on Sunday. She was absolutely extraordinary, finishing the 26.2 miles in 4:09. I used to drive Andrea to middle school every morning, and to see that gal round the corner to the finish after circling Lambeau Field literally brought tears to my eyes.
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Andrea just after the finish, still smiling! |
Brenda Nejedlo, CS staffer, completed her second half . . . run/walking an awesome race with the support of her husband, John and enthusiastic Bichon, Missy.
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Brenda found me in the Lambeau Field atrium before the start. |
My brother Todd and my sister Beth finished well. Oh, and my dear friends Lara and Russel, and my great pal/cousin/3-time Boston Marathon finisher, Drew, who brought home a 3rd place award in his age group.
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Drew's plate-sized top finisher medal. |
I'm proud as punch of my running friends. We celebrated our accomplishments with plenty of great food afterward. Entertaining a large tribe of runners post-race prevents stiffness from setting in, I suppose.
In celebration of our weekend, I wanted to put the last of the
Marathon Collection on sale for a special buy. This is the last of it, my dear running friends. It's a cool collection and will be gone soon, especially at this
crazy price!
Are you a runner? Are you a walker? Are you a runner wanna-be? I got started many years ago with this nifty "
couch potato to 5-K program". I was the girl who said, "Oh, I don't run. I'll start running when I start seeing other runners smiling." Well, I can tell you that I smiled for almost 13.1 miles straight on Sunday. Thank you,
GB Half Marathon organizers and volunteers for a great race day!
"Nobody said it would be easy. They said it would be worth it." -- Anonymous
Looking forward to hearing your running stories!
To your good health . . .
Tricia
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Cliff, me and Todd sporting our hardware in front of Lambeau Field. |