Race Envy

This past weekend my college roommate and her running buddy came to stay with us for the weekend. They used us as home base while they competed in a half marathon in Boston. Bill and I went up to town with them early on Sunday morning, bundled all up until the sun peeked out, so we could cheer them on down the course.

I had found this race last year and decided we would train for and do, since we would be living right there after all. Well, other things got in the way of that, obviously. This was the first time Bill’s been to a race without participating (not counting the Illinois marathon that we happened to find out was going past our house), and one of my few too. It was a little sad, a little frustrating to not be a part of all the juice and excitement and pride and comraderie. But we got into the spirit of things when we were standing just up from the finish line and saw our girls coming in strong and fast!

Here’s Teresa — she finished 24th out of all the women in the entire race!

And Rachel was running so fast toward the line that she ran right out of the picture before I could snap a shot. I can just make out her left leg here.

They sure earned their medals! Both of them got within at least 2 minutes of their goal times — can’t do much better than that!

And they even had enough energy left over for a rousing puzzle that evening. Not only did they finish a half marathon; they finished an entire jigsaw too! Can there be a better day than that?

Next year, Bill and I will be there at the finish line, hopefully striding across it with as much enthusiasm, Baby clapping for us to run run run!