Expo. Once you've seen one Expo, you've kinda seen them all.
My eggplant paramasean and the spaghetti next to it that I should have had instead.
My NITRO running group/family!
NITROruns.com BABY!
Left to right: Sharon (4:34), Steve (5:36), Cheri (5:25), Margi (4:55), me (4:54), Dennis (4:05)
hehe, "Same Day" pace group
There's Pacer Jim. Um, he was very "energetic*."
Interesting hat idea!
Yep, gotta get a legs/shoe shot.
The start
I was _this_close to Pacer Jim. Not that it did me a lot of good.
Our first official water stop; we passed the very first one.
We were a little fast but had a minute banked up.
2 of the sausage mascots from the Brewers baseball team.
Exactly where we wanted to be. I was feeling good at this point.
Me holding the pace stick.
Another sausage mascot.
Time to hand the stick off to the next person!
And there's my pace group leaving me. :(
See the old lady in yellow? Her name is Lynne. Pay attention to a photo later. I'll mention her again. I did manage to pass her here.
"This seemed like a good idea three months ago."
Jesse & Katie cheering for me again. Their second stop on the route. His sign says "There's no Mil-WALK-kee in Milwaukee. RUN!" Pretty genius!
That's the 4:45 pace group passing me at mile 18. :( That's when I knew I was in trouble.
Heh. Something like that.
The lakefront. See that yellow dot? Click on the photo if you need to. Yea, that's the Lynne, the old lady. She passed me when I did my second porta-potty stop.
There's Lynne again up there. And the girl in pink? She & I were leap frogging over each other a lot. She passed me at the porta-potty stop as well. But I caught up to her and I think I passed her before the end. And yes, I took a picture of every single mile marker.
25 1/2? Really? Just to torture us?
At least I wasn't the only one walking at this point.
I kissed my hand and smacked the sign.
Dennis & his family cheering me on!
Tom, Cheri's husband, cheering for me.
Jesse & Katie again cheering for me.
I missed a photo of Kevin & Jess though. :-( Sorry guys. I did give them a high five as well as all the people at the end.
When I get the professional and any friend photos, I'll post those as well.
*What I mean by energetic is he was extremely talkative. Told jokes and raunchy ones at that. Not that I mind those types. Got my mind off of running. Here are several jokes that Pacer Jim told us during the 10 miles I was with them:
What is the preferred method of birth control for engineers?
Their personality.
How can you tell the difference between an oral thermometer and a rectal one?
The taste.
A doctor calls a husband and wife into his office. Husband says "Doctor, what's wrong? Why did you call us in here?" Doctor says "Well, I found a lump in your wife's breast." Husband looks at the doctor and says "But Doctor, you're a dentist!"
While I was holding the stick, I told my joke:
How do you wake up Lada Gaga?
Poker (poke her) face.
