Half-Marathon!!

This Half-Marathon... is just the beginning.

 Half-Marathon 13.1 Here we come!!

This was my goal.

I've never done anything this athletic in my life.

I knew I would be turning 50 this year, and I wanted to accomplish something BIG!

This my friend.. was BIG for me.

I had a great coach! (Charlie, my sweet and wonderful husband of nearly 31 years!)

He encouraged me and pushed me to my goal.  (I could tell by the twinkle in his eye, he was proud of his wife.  That made it worth it all!)

My daughter and her husband, also trained for the race.

She was one of my biggest cheer leaders!!

It was fun to have Randy and Melissa Beane there too! 

This is only the beginning Randy!!

Melissa is the little energizer bunny!!  She zips around the course like a jack rabbit!

Notice... before the race began... we are all smiles..... clean... not red in the face, sweat is not dripping off anything.... yeah.. this will be short lived...

And we're OFF!!!

One last hubbie and me pic.  He was great!  he would run ahead of me, turn around with his phone and take my picture... He was documenting my greatest athletic accomplishment!!  He's so cool.

this is after the race....
I finished in 2:43 min.
Megan in 2:32
Jeremy in 2:20
(I'm sure I have the times off a little...they'll correct me.. no doubt.)

Who knows? Maybe this time next year, I'll run the Full Marathon.  Stay tuned.

Then off to Charleston for the rest of the day.

Note:  We all walked a little slower..... and moaned and groaned a bit... well, all except Charlie, who was laughing at us...