Archive for November 23rd, 2008

I had a great time today, starting early at Rocky where I handed Kat the emergency pace bands I promised to print and since I’m full-service, I remembered tape and scissors, too. Joe and Sub3 from the forums were there and when they left I met Paula (hi Paula) whom I didn’t know but admitted to reading this blog. Bless you, girl.

Dear Mattsky and his wife were around for the 8K, his first race since a long drawn out injury, but even though we were on the phone trying to locate each other “I’m by the tent” “which tent? I don’t see you”, I eventually gave up and wished him a great race, though I’m sure he was only a few feet away from me.

Went home for 1/2 hour then walked over to the river around miles 11-12 where I saw Sub3 zooming in with the speedy animals and soon after, Joe went flying by. It’s much easier to see super fast people because there are fewer runners around them. I did spot Kat a little later and probably would have missed her but she had her name taped to the front of her shirt.  I also saw Craig who I met at the Expo yesterday and he gave me a high-five, but that was it for that area of the course. I missed my other two BQ gals and a few more I was looking for, especially sad that I missed Progman since that’s why I was at mile 12 in the first place, he of the Half Marathon persuasion.

Standing around by myself, I felt silly yelling at strangers until I eventually got the crazies, pulled out my kazoo (the only noisy thing I had in the house) and started playing the Rocky Theme. Lots of laughs and “woohoos” so it was fun and I got all giggly happy at that point, eventually yelling out lots of encouraging stuff. It’s cool how people respond, I loved it.

Then I walked around to the 24.75 mark and found ShoreTurtle who was the Cowbell Man and such fun to hang with. My friend Craig (different Craig) joined up with us, too, so we had a solid cheering section, taking great delight in yelling people’s names or whatever they had on their shirts. I’ll definitely put my name on my shirt for the next marathon.

From that vantage point, I saw Joe again and then Kat (who I later learned fell splat on the pavement complete with road burns at mile 19 but got a BQ anyway, woohoo!) but missed Nina for the second time so I never saw her though I did see Judy who was looking great. I saw the back of Flyers26 (pointed out to me by ShoreTurtle) and missed seeing quite a few on my list entirely with all the whizzing by and not so familiar faces, so I was a little sad on that score.  Still, what a great way to spend a cold November morning.