13.1

Starting Line- 7am. It was dark.

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I did it. We did it. 13.1 miles. My longest run ever. And it was fun. A lot of fun. And beautiful. Oh so beautiful.

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Special thanks {sniff, sniff} goes to Tara for going all 13.1 miles with me, & for always encouraging me over the last few months of training. May the guilt-trip calls continue! It has be so fun for her to be my cross-country running buddy. And to Kera- for being such a good example of how cool a mom to a 6-month old can be {and you should see how skinny she is- she is looking so cute!}. To Patrick, Mom & Dad for cheering us on along the way {in several locations- it was fun to see their familiar faces along the way}. I'm glad that you were all there. And- to the 23,000 other women who ran with us. It was absolutely empowering to be in this crowd.

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And now- I wait at SFO for my flight back to JFK. It leaves at 10:50pm. It's only 9:00pm. I'm exhausted. Exhausted. Not just from the run, but from being on the West Coast for the last three days while my body is very much on East Coast time. I get in at 7:10am tomorrow morning, & am lucky enough to have to be at work late-morning for a few meetings. It should be a fun Monday. I really hate red eye flights.

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Oh- & I will post pictures once I decide which of the 77 in my "marathon pictures for blog" folder I should actually upload.

Course Map.