What a week! Last week at this time I was having dinner at The Pizza Factory with my family, getting ready to take the red eye flight to Boston. So much has happened! So grateful that the suspects are off the street! I am glad we left Boston Wednesday because things started heating up again and I'm afraid we may have not gotten out as easily. Yesterday Tom and I decided we had to cross a marathon finish line this week. I went up to the SL Marathon Expo to see if we could get registered to run today's marathon. They were very gracious and even gave us comps! So bright and early this morning we headed up to SLC in the pouring rain to run a second marathon for this week. This is definitely something I have never done nor do I plan to do again. When we decided to run it we were going to take it nice and easy again. But we got caught up in all the excitement of running with the Boston crew who were planning on crossing the finish line at 4:09:43 in honor of the victims of the bombings. I wasn't sure I could do that so we actually started with them but had a plan B. Plan B was to cross at 4:15:13 which was the date of the Boston Marathon. The start line was exciting...there was a moment of silence and some Sweet Caroline and some fists in the air! The weather did not dampen the spirits! We hung with the group most of the way but I could tell I was not going to be able to make it in with them. I started doing a little looning out and the legs and back were not wanting to continue. I also had to take a potty stop so I knew Plan A was out and even Plan B was looking grim. But that is ok because the original Plan A was to just to cross the finish line. So that is what we went back to. It would have been fabulous to cross with the others but it just was not in the cards for me. Tom could have done it easily but he stuck right by my side the whole way through! The last 10 K was pretty tough for me. But some way I found the energy to keep going. When we reached the park I got the extra energy that the finish line can bring and we madae a very good kick through the awesome finish line crowd to the end! I kind of lost it as we crossed the finish line! It is really hard to explain all that was going through my head at that time. But it was amazing! I was glad Tom was there to hold me up. As I walked my way through the chute and over to a place to sit down I was looking pretty pathetic! I'm sure they want video of me at that time to help others have the desire to run a marathon...NOT! I think I convinced plenty of spectators that they are much smarter than me by cheering rather than running a marathon. I was so cold and so cramped up. This definitely was the hardest marathon I have ever done! But I guess that is ok. Oh....as I was coming home my friend informed me on Facebook that I actually got 4th in my age! So that was kind of nice. As I got home and looked at the results I realized that if I would have stuck with the 4:09 group I would have taken 2nd in my age. Oh well..... that is not at all what I was out there for today. Today was to cross a finish line and I did it! | 
