Taking it all in

 

So I decided that I was going to enjoy myself on my first half-marathon. I packed my camera and cell phone and started out. Well, just after mile 3, I saw this group of alpaca...and it was just too adorable. So I stopped to take a picture. The first of several.

Stopping to smell the roses...

 

OK...isn't this the most beautiful field??? I just had to get a picture. This was at about 4.5 miles. I'm such a dorky half-marathoner.

Do not enter...wrong way

 

So at about the 4 mile mark, we saw some full-marathoners going the other direction. It was a little strange, but of course, I'm a gawker so I just watch the whole thing go by. Well, I took a picture. Anyway, it turns out that some of the marathoners took a wrong route and ended up doing the marathon backwards.

Finished!!!

 

Waiting at the finish line were Andi & Bev!!! Andi was a real trooper since she finished so far ahead of me. She sat in the cold...waiting.

The Ultra Marathon Man

 

Last year I read Ultra Marathon Man by D. Karnazes and was inspired...not enough to run 100 miles, but enough to start moving. Well, guess who ran the same marathon??? Here's a shot of the man himself!