26.2 I did it!

I kicked asphalt, and here are the photo's to prove it! I ran most of the race with my TNT friends. I did nearly the enitre race with the awesome Sara Cears (pronounced Cheers)! She's a real power house of good energy and can do attitude! Matt, Andrew, & my in-laws had one heck of a day watching the marathon and seeing all sorts of exotic Chicago spots!

I'm not in this photo. I may be a yellow dot in the far off distance-- I crossed the start line 22 minutes after the offical start. It seems as if my other 40,000 closest pals were in a hurry.


Jerry, Andrew, & Kathy enjoying brunch at Orange while I'm slechlping my way through the North side (and the first ten miles).

This is a little before the half way point. There were some really cool folks playing Bon Jovi's "Livin' on a Prayer" so all the runners I was with were yelling 'Ahh Half Way There.' AWESOME!

This is me at about the 20 / 23 mile marker visiting with veiwers Matt & Kathy. I like this photo because it has the Sears Tower in the background, and the hard working observers with myself.

This was me in the 'bite me' zone. I lost all my runing pals and my right foot was going "What the HELL are you doing to me?!?!" I didn't have the ability to stop and start to say hi, so I waved at the camara and kept going. Note all of the other walkers, this was about the 20 mile mark.

Shortly after the picture above I found Sara in the crowd, and we finished strong together! In fact we divereted from out walk 2 minutes run 3 plan at the end and ran the last mile (which is on an incline) together! She rocks!