CDA Marathon!

We woke up early Sunday morning after sleeping on a leaky air mattress, left the children with Nana and Grandpa and cruised on over to start our hours worth of running! Today we are a bit achy, tired and sore, but we are finishers!  At the end of the day yesterday we were lying in bed thinking, "I just ran a half marathon today!" or for Brian, "I just ran a full marathon this morning!"  We felt like we really had accomplished something that day! What a nice feeing despite our tired bodies! :-)

 I ran the race with my bestie Johanna and we couldn't have had more fun (although the last 3 miles weren't quite as fun as the first 10! :-)  And did we run the whole way, why yes we did! (with 2 potty breaks in the middle :-)

Here's Brian, minutes after finishing the race

I'm so proud of Brian running his first marathon (26.2 miles!).  I'm not gonna lie, I was a bit nervous for him. During my race I'd hear a siren going off and secretly pray that it wasn't Brian who was needing to be carried off the course on a stretcher :-)  haha.  But like the champ he is, he did it and did it well.  He cruised through the first 21 miles no problem, it was those last 5 that became quite the physical and mental challenge for him :-)