Paul and Logan left at about 5:10-5:15, I wasn't really awake enough to remember. I just know that I did remember to have Paul reset the alarm so I wouldn't sleep in and miss the race. I got up and caught the charter bus down to the finish line. That's when I had the most drama that I did all weekend. I got off the bus and realized when I saw everybody else's breakfast passes that I had the wrong one. The security guards were doing a very good job of following orders and wouldn't let me in without the pass. So, with all due embarrassment I started crying like a baby because I was missing possibly one of the biggest moments of my husband's running career. Well, I decided that, despite the fact that I was hungry, I decided to give up on getting into the breakfast and just try to see some of the race, so I walked around to one of the general spectator entrances and just reserved myself to sitting with the average people. I wouldn't be able to eat, but at least I would be able to see the race. So, at that point I called Katey Fielding, Logan's wife, and told her that I couldn't get into the breakfast, but that I should probably meet her somewhere to give her the bracelet that she needed to get into the post-race finish area (different from the finish line). Turns out Logan's mom wasn't going to be there for over an hour, so she let me use her pass to breakfast (which I proudly displayed for the security guards who were giving me a hard time) and then came back out to get her later. The race itself was awesome. Ryan Hall was amazing! There was a good fight going on for second and third. Dathan Ritzenhein and Brian Sell ended up with those spots, but at various times Meb, Abdi, Dan Browne, and Khalid were contenders. I started crying when Ryan Hall was approaching the finish and he just started praising God. It's awesome to me to see somebody who displays their faith so readily. At the finish I heard some people talking about Ryan Shay having a heart attack, but only found out later that he actually died during the race. It seemed so strange. I felt really, really sad for his wife of three months. Just imagine. It broke my heart.
After the race we hopped back on the bus back to the hotel took showers and headed back down to the bus to go to the luncheon. It was really, really tasty. Then we popped into the Brooks party where we got awesome Hanson's shirts (it's a t-shirt with a picture of a singlet on it) and Hanson's playing cards. We spent the rest of the day hanging out with Logan and Katey. I know that I should have felt like doing something New York-y, but I was happy to just sit and chat for a while. We ended up in Times Square again and ran into a guy who sold us tickets for a comedy club (Comic Strip Live, the one where Seinfeld did his thing at the beginning of his show). We were all a little leery that it might get raunchy, but decided that at $10 apiece if we didn't like it we could just leave. It ended up being pretty funny, so I was glad we went. That pretty much wraps up Saturday.
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