Brooklyn Half Marathon

We did it! We finished a half marathon. Mike and I went and ran the Brooklyn, NY half marathon on May 30, 2009. It was a lot of fun - I guess if you call running 13 miles "fun". The race started in Prospect park and ended at Coney Island. The weather was perfect that day - not too hot and not too cold. There were 12,000 runners in the race. Once the horn blew at the start of the race, it took us 15 minutes just to get to the starting line. Mike ran with me for the first 6 miles, at which point I demanded he go ahead of me as I did not want him to feel like I was holding him back. Mike felt like he had run a pretty fast race, so much so, that he thought he could finish the race, go to the car, get the camera and a gatorade and then get back to the finish line to catch me coming over the finish line. Well, as is nearly always the case, he was wrong and 1 hour later he came back to the car to find me there locked out of the car, without a gatorade and wondering if my husband had lost his mind. I was a little upset about this situation, but the worst was the fact that he actually thought I would be that far behind him - has he not learned anything in 12 years. Well anyway, I guess I should forgive him, since I did force him to run 1/4 mile maybe (or if you ask Mike a mile) before the race began to go back to the car to get some money for the train ride, only to find out that it was a free ride (just as Mike had told me it would be). Aside from these minor mishaps, the race was a lot of fun and it was great to be able to finish.