Wednesday, April 30, 2008

VICTORY!!!

He did it!It was a crazy day. He made his time and then some. His goal was 3:56 and he came in at 3:44. WOW!!!

The day started off rough minus getting up at 4:00 am. A thunderstorm has just started and I had to get Adam and another runner across town to LP Field and then back to the start. We sat in traffic and then chinese fire drilled it. He hopped into the other runner's car and I jumped in the driver's seat of our car and headed to the start. I went to pick up Aunt TT and Elizabeth and then somehow made it in time to see him come down mile 4 and then around 7. We went for coffee and my poor sis and her hubby were still lost. We went to the finish and waited. Jen and her hubby finally caught up and we planted ourselves right at mile marker 26 and waited. We saw some pretty excellent finishes. A man ran probably totally on will alone. He was running and you could only really see the whites of his eyes. Spooky. The usual tear jerker, a father running in with his daughters. Adam finished right where he needed.

His goal like I said in the previous post was Boston. For those of you who don't know, not just anyone can sign up for Boston. You have to have a qualifying time. Only some marathons are certified where a time will count for Boston. Nashville is one as well is Chicago and some more. Adam wanted to make Boston running at Chicago. However, Chicago is already full. YIKES! Now he is looking into doing the Marine Corp marathon in D.C. We shall see. We are proud of our running man.

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