An intro to my Dumbo Double Dare

Well it is over, the big Dumbo Double Dare. It was a lot of fun, but now I really just want to be home with my family. It is great to go away but not to have that special someone to share your accomplishment with kinda sucks. I know I am telling the story backwards but when I finished the half I was just spent. You get your half marathon medal first and that was pretty exciting, then you went to each area for them to cut off your wristband and give you the next medal. Dumbo was next and I could feel the tears coming, but held off, then to the coast to coast, again close to tears, eyes welling up ( just like now as I am writing this). I then called Doug and it was all over, crying and so excited, sorry just had to blow my nose and wipe my eyes, you get the picture. Ok on to other things because I will keep on crying.

Another good story was when we were waiting to start, you Re there for about an hour before so if you are like me you start talking to anyone. Well there was this couple next to us her name was Andrea don't know his name. Anyways I ask if this is her first race and she says yes but she hasn't trained for it, so I am thinking didn't train for it like I didn't train for my first half by only running 8 miles. No she hasn't trained at all, someone was supposed to buy her bib but backed out and since she had paid for it decided to walk it. Well I was just the one to tell her about walking a half. Told her the whole story about my back, and how I walked Cleveland, she was so nervous and I just kept talking, imagine that. I told her that because she was walking she would see and remember so much more than her husband who was running. I told her how I would ask Doug if he saw this or that and he always said no, it was because I was slower. I then gave her the words of wisdom that Belinda my daughter's mother in law told me at my first 5k, everyone gets the same medal and thirst no matter how we do it. I wished her luck and away we went, well about a half a mile down the road her husband comes up behind me and thanked me for encouraging his wife, I told him God puts us near people he wants us to help. End of my story. I hope she did ok and had a blast!  

I think that I will break for now Nd continue as I sit for hours at the Airport.

TTFN