on october 7th, my amazing brother, matt, ran his second marathon in chicago!! my mom and i were able to head up there for the day to cheer him on!! what an awesome experience!!
matt and i before the race!
mom and matt!
this was at the very start....well, right around mile 2. the wheelchair racers go first! pretty amazing!!
and here come the elite runners....whoever won the race was probably in this group and they set a course record....2 hours and 4 minutes!! that's 26.2 miles in just over 2 hours!! wow!! that's just crazy!
so we had our plan all set up as to where we would go to try to see matt. the first stop was right around 2 miles (the pics above)....we missed him there! in our defense, the runners were still pretty crowded since it was so close to the start!
so off we went to our second stop....just before the halfway mark. we got there in plenty of time, got a great spot and waited.....and waited and waited and waited.....and then i got the text update that matt had reached the halfway point....uh oh! that means he flew by us yet again! darn it!! we have no idea how we missed him! we were watching so closely for him! grrrr.....
we had one last chance to catch him. we made it to our designated spot (i believe around mile 16), found a place to stand where we could sort of see the runners, and waited and within a few minutes, there he was....
here comes matt....red shirt, gray shorts, blue shoes and black hat! go matt!!!
we yelled for him, thinking there was no chance that he'd hear us, but he did! yahoo!
matt and his friend rick after completing the chicago marathon!!
we are so so proud of matt!! he is such an inspiration!!!
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