The start-

Hey Folks!~
It's been a week and I am still on a marathon HIGH from last weekend. I borrowed an idea from a friend I ran Chicago with last year, I took a disposable camera with me and got photos of each mile marker. Taking pictures kept me focused on just making it to the next mile marker, rather than the 25.2 miles to the finish line.
There are interesting things I captured from the first three / fifths of the race:

Mile 1. Verazanno-Narows Bridge, worlds largest suspension bridge. Burrow 1. Staten Island, the pre-start line hang out.

Mile 2. Welcome to burrow two, Brooklyn!

Mile three, and Jen the woman I started the race with.

KEEP SCROLLING DOWN-
TO GET ALL THE PICTURES UP I HAD TO POST MULTIPLE TIMES.

Mile 4 through 7

Lots of water at mile four.

tiny little mile five sign.
One hour and fifteen at mile six- it's not Boston qualifying time, but it's a sunny cool fall day to run!

Mile seven, and some stranger doing something strange.

Mile 8 and on

 

Mile eight

 

Mile nine

 

Mile- oh my, well there weren't enough port-a-potties. As a user of port-a-potties, I think that they could have used a good cleaning by the time I got to them.

Mile 10 through 14

 

Mile ten coming from Brooklyn into Queens.

 

Hey! It's me!

 

An un-impressive bridge in Queens where the half way point was,

 

Mile 16 & The Queensboro Bridge

 

This is the start of the bridge- we ran through it, which was dark, cold, and errie. One can sorta see the 15 mile marker ahead.

 

A view of Manhattan from the bridge.

 

Mile 16! So what does Manhattan look like? How about the Bronx? Or even photos of the remaining 10.2 miles- sorry ran out of film - I'll have to do this again to show you the finish line (or you could join me!)

Soundtrack for this race was provided by Andrew's iPod, seeing as I never actually put any music on Matt's podcast full nano. Thanks Andrew- but Mmm bop! really?

Thank you Toyota for Such a great experience! Also, they aren't pictured but thanks to all my Team Toyota friends for making this such a great event. I ran with Amy for a while before the 13.1 marker, and by mile twenty I found Denis and we finished the race together! There is a special place in my heart for the people who help drag my butt across the finish line, Thank you!

New York Rocks

I finished! Pictures to come, New York was great- I'm still achey and sleepy- but I would do it again in a fully recovered from this marathon heartbeat. Plus I finished this race thirty minutes faster than last year- but Katie Holmes still beat me.

(I rounded my times to easier numbers- because I hurt from head to toe and everything in between right now)

NYC 2007 time: 5:45
Chicago 2006 time: 6:15

Thank you Andrew and Laura for trekking all across the country to come out for the race!