Grandma's Marathon

It was Race Day today! I was up at 6:40 and was out of the house by 6:50. I stopped at Great Harvest Bread on my walk down to the race and picked up breakfast. I met Nikki in front of Fitgers at 7:20 and we settled in for the race. It was a lovely morning with a temp of about 60 degrees and a 15mph wind. Mile markers 24 (for the full) and 11 (for the half) were in front of Fitgers and so there was a water station and a DJ playing some tunes:


The Half Marathon started at 6:30am. I knew a handful of people that would be running the Half. Henry was by far the speediest of the group finishing in 1:20:00!! That is incredible considering the winning time was 1:04:24! This was Henry's personal record... we nearly missed him as we weren't expecting him so soon:
The Rod (fitness coordinator at UMD):
Christyn May (assistant volleyball coach at UMD and recent winner of a body building contest):
Ed Fuhs (part of the Rec Sports family at UMD):
Stacy Loberg (our college buddy):
All smiles after the race:
The water station workers got all the H2O cups cleared out of the road just in time for the full marathon runners to arrive.
Here are the male leaders for the full marathon:
and the female leader:
The winning times for the male & female racers were 2:15:44 and 2:31:35 respectively.

I didn't stick around for all of the marathon runners as I wanted to get back home to awake the Sleeping Bear. On my walk back home I swung by the 14th Ave Farmers Market to get some more cooking herbs. Unfortunately, I think it's too late in the season to get starter plants. All was not lost however as I managed to find some chocolate and lavender hand soap.

I woke Mikey up and we had lunch together and then he was off to work and I took a nap! It was a great day! I even got the canine princess out for a walk this evening.

I neglected to show you Mikey's cooking project from last weekend:
He made a stock pot of homemade spaghetti sauce. We used up some tomatoes that we froze from last year's harvest as well as some chicken & beef bones that were in the freezer. There was lots of pureeing and straining and simmering... for 24 hours! It made for some awesome leftovers all week!