Runners World

It's been a busy 8 days in our household. Last Sunday was the Chicago marathon that Mike and two of his good friends were signed up for and had been training for since last spring. We drove out to Chicago for a child-free weekend to cheer on our men!! Unfortunately, Mike wasn't able to finish the run. He sprained his ankle at mile 10 and ran on it until mile 12 when he then decided it wasn't worth potentially causing major problems to his ankle as he still had 14 miles to run! I am still VERY proud of him. He did a great job training and gave it his all!
Here is Mike and Jeff before leaving for the race on Sunday morning. I feel bad that I don't have any pics of him running! Here is a shot of the race. There were 45,000 people signed up for the marathon. It was quiet the sight!! (I should point out that we were near a water station and that is what is all over the ground are water cups that the runners drink out of then throw down).

A fun photo of Haydn, Porter, Hannah and Stella before bed on Friday night. :)

This morning I ran the Des Moines Half Marathon. I belong to an awesome mom's group and 9 out of the 11 of us ran the half marathon today. It was so nice having the support of so many other women pushing each other! We didn't all run together, but it was just great knowing that we were doing this as a team effort! I'm so proud of all my Sassy Mama's!!!

I had a personal goal and that was to finish under 2 hours, my official time was 1 hour 56 minutes, so I did it!!! I am very pleased and it's great to have all your hard work pay off. :) Mike took the kids downtown this morning along with our friend Lucy's children, Berlin and Eric to cheer us on. He didn't have the camera, so no pics of me looking all haggard! Sorry! Here I am after a shower with my medal and race bib.

I signed the kids up for the fun run, which was this afternoon at 1. Stella was VERY excited about this. They got their own t-shirts and a ribbon at the end of their race. Porter was not so excited about it, but he did do a great job once we got there! :)

My friends Lucy and Erin also signed their kids up for the fun run, so here are all 6 of them getting ready to run.

Just thought this was funny of Berlin and Stella harassing the poor guy dressed up as a pair of dice!

Stella and Berlin all smiles before the race starts.

Great action shot of Stella, she's on the far right.

A very proud girl with her ribbon.

We didn't as many pics of Porter since his age group started at one end of the block and finished at the other, where as Stella started and stopped at the same spot. Here he is running! He was crying towards the end b/c he couldn't see me, but at the beginning he had huge smiles!