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Matthew's First Half-Marathon

It's been a long day for both Matthew and I today!  We started our day at about 2am, getting up and ready for the Guam International Marathon.  They were having 4 different races today:  the Marathon (26.2 miles) the Half Marathon (13.1 miles), the 10K and the 5K runs.  Matthew was scheduled to run in the Half Marathon starting at 4:30.  We left the house at 2:30 thinking we might run into some trouble trying to get a parking spot.  Lucky enough for us, I guess it was just too early for too many people to be out, we didn't have a problem finding parking at the K-mart.  From there it was about a mile walk to the Start/Finish line.

We walked down and I settled in to a nice spot where I could watch the races begin and end.  Matthew stretched and got himself all pumped up and excited for this first time adventure of his!  Around 4:10 they were lining up the runners and playing pumped up music to get everyone excited!  Here is the rest of the event in pictures:




Getting hipped up for the race.



Going to join the huge crowd of runners.



The line and count-down to get started!


Finishing in 2 hours 8 minutes!  WHOA! GO BABE!!



Lookin' pretty tired but very accomplished! :)



Yeay!  You did it babe!  I am so proud of you being able to step outside of what you have ever done before and accomplish your goals and in less time than you were expecting too!  That is just amazing.  Next year it will be me and your baby girl cheering you on!  

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yay good job matt
4/12/14, 9:56 PM
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