I'm spending the weekend indoors since there's a typhoon outdoors. This must be the remnants of Hurricane Ike because it's been nothing but cats and dogs outside since yesterday afternoon. Rodrigo escaped early Friday morning to Vegas where it's nice and dry and warm. Chicago is just wet.
I've had a bad head cold all week and I still can't shake this cough. So I'm hibernating, lying around and doing nothing much at all. Yep, I have a marathon to run in less than a month. Do I feel prepared, pumped, ready to go? Hahaha... no. I'm scared shitless. I need to run but the elements are against me!
6 Hours, 29 neighborhood and numerous gel packs later, Chicago Marathon 2008 is finished! The temp reached 84 degrees that day, and 33,000 runners participated.
A big thank you to all of my supporters for helping to make it happen. Adrienne and Dave made sure I was fueled at mile 9, Teri met up with me at mile 13 to run by my side through the hottest part of the race, I bumped into Rodrigo and Addy at mile 18 while grabbing more gel packs, and Rodrigo found me on the bridge and sprinted the last 200 meters with me (in his flip flops!). It was awesome!
And even more amazing is over $700 will be donated to Hope Runs, which will help its children's program in Tanzania and Kenya. Read more about it at www.hoperuns.org. And fittingly so, the male Kenyans dominated the race this year. Read the Tribune's coverage here.
Along with all the congrats and hugs and handshakes, a question I keep getting is will I do it again next year. If you asked me around mile 23, the answer would have been a exasperated, exhausted and angry " NO WAY!" But a month has passed, the pain wore off, so only more time will tell. Running is addictive so odds are, another marathon is on the horizon. :)
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