1900 and a marathon

I hit 1900 miles on 11/13/2011 during the 22 mile Rock n Roll Marathon inagural bike tour in San Antonio. I'm sure at the exacty 1900 miles I probably blew a snot rocket. Yes, I was sick and riding my bike, and we woke up at 4:30 to get to the starting line by 5:30 AM, but it was a more important day other than hitting 1900 miles on my bike and being the day before stroke day.


The day is important because Yungie will be completing his first marathon, a year after he ran his first 1/2 marathon!

When we finished the bikeride, Yung had only been running for 30 mins, so we ate, filled our water bottles & took off to find him at mile 10.



As we waited and cheered other runners on Yungie passed us by...we had to go find him, we rode on the course dodging runners to get to mile 13.
We found him!



Then we lost him again before mile 14, so we waited at mile 20 for him to come out of the loop. MB ran to Sonic for food and we saw Christie! Then about 1.5 hours later he appeared, beat and probably annoyed we were standing at the top of the hill cheering, so he ran up the hill.





From there on we leap frogged Yungie & about 10 other runners trying to make it to the finish. Each time we would stop, get off the bikes, pull out the cowbells and start cheering for 'red shirt guy', 'black shirt & red hat guy', 'polo shirt guy' and Elizabeth.


At one point we pulled over and bought a bunch of gatorade since the water stop had run out (I don't think they were planning on the temps hitting 86!) The runners were thankful.

Then the incident w/ Hector occurred. Hector had a friend riding next to him, but Hector decided he needed a break, thus he went and layed down in the shade. MB goes to check on things & once she realizes he is ok she asks, "did you train for this?" "Yes," Hector replies. "Well you better get up & finish because you don't want to have to do it again!" He agrees and gets up to start running again. But before he can pass the cheerleaders, MB has informed them that Hector needs a little encouragement, so as he's running by they are cheering "Let's go Hector!" We were glad to find out he finished, took him 7 + hours but he finished.

Finally we could see the legs of the dead armadillo (the Alamodome looks like a dead armadillo laying on its back w its legs up in the air...they do this when they die)



Yungie finished in 6:30, not the time he wanted, but he finished! It was a tough run. We hope he appreciated his Mobile Cheering Team, because we had fun cheering him and the surrounding others on and we are very proud of him!



Not only was it Yung's first marathon, it was MB's first long bike ride! Hope she joins ABCx in training next summer!
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Miles for this ride: 36
Miles for the week: about 52
Total miles for the month: for November-- 116
Total miles for 2011: 1922 not including mtn bike rides
Miles to go: -422 to hit 1500 89 to 2011
Odometer: 11732