Relay Marathon With Kelly & Ed

Twenty-Second Annual HMRRC Winter Marathon Relay Albany, New York

February 24, 2008

The Relay Marathon was a blast!

I had such a great day with Ed & Kelly. They are great people...

Kelly went out first. Remember she did not feel so good the week prior and was a touch nervous. She was amazing!! She ran her 9.2 in 1:06.

Then it was my turn..boy was I ever nervous. 5.68 miles ahead of me. I went out not being able to catch my breath for the first mile. Then I got into my zone and collected myself and went with it. I had a great run! The best run I ever had. I always say "I hate running while I'm running but.. I love it when I'm done" But this time I loved the whole run. Then, the biggest run. Ed had his 11.3. I came in and tagged him and he went out. He looked good! He had to do two of the inner loops. He came back from the first one in under an hour. When he went out for the second loop Kelly and I hung out, ate some soup, bananas & cookies then went back out to wait for our team mate. Kelly and I had fun making fun of other runners while waiting for Ed.( Kidding) just the American flag man..INSIDE JOKE. We were estimating how much longer we thought Ed would be and we looked up and to our amazement there he was way faster then we expected. He looked awesome. If only.. one of us were two seconds faster...we could have qualified for The Boston Marathon.

WE MADE AN SPECTACULAR TEAM !!!