Wednesday, March 3, 2010

2010 National Breast Cancer Marathon

The 26.2 With Donna
Jacksonville Florida
February 21st, 2010 These boards where there for everyone to sign or put a message on. They had them along the course as well and then they are going to blow parts of them up to make Billboards to advertise the race for next year.
It was FREEZING at 530am before the sun came up.
Still looking a little sleepy and jet lagged in this picture..

Our shirts had a picture of Randie in her pink wig and read: "Running for Randie's Ta Ta's!"

Some of my other favorite shirts people had were ones that read "Saving 2nd Base" or there was a marathon relay team called the "Rack Pack". I thought those were pretty good :-)


We were lining up here for the start. The sun was just coming up so we were starting to thaw out..

It was really amazing to see how many people were running for someone they loved. People had costumes, tutu's, guys wore pink running skirts...one guy even ran the whole way with these huge pink angel wings attached to him.

After finishing....
It was a beautiful race, we ran along the hard packed beach for a few miles and then through these amazing old plantation neighborhoods which were nice and shady. The spectators were amazing, dressing their houses up, bands playing, setting up extra water and orange slice stations... Then the last 7 or 8 miles were along the freeway back to the Mayo Clinic with no shade and it was HOT! I thought I was going to melt into the pavement. I guess we forgot to put sunscreen on too...We ended up with some great farmers tans/sunburns..ha!

Post race, off to find our free beers!!

ahhhh....found them....

Nate's Post race Nap :-)

My Cook Ladies :-)

Ronda and Lander's Newly remodeled cabin/house up at Higgins Lake Lander trying to pretend she is taller than me...I still have her by an inch!
Granted she is only turning 16 this summer...

Out on the frozen lake...surprised they could convince me to walk out on the ice, I hate feeling like I am going to fall through!

Ronda and I
Trouble...

So nice to see them, even though the visit was much too short. Love you girls!

Learning to Kiteboard..on ice

Nate using the training kite to learn on top of frozen Higgins Lake
Dave Showing us how to use it...

Nate was great at it! It is so much fun, I can't wait to actually try it some more and get into the water with one!

In Love with my little Nephew :-)

Little Man in a milk coma

I think I hogged Troy as much as I could while we were there...sorry Beth :-)

Troy chilling in his swing...life is good :-)

I LOVE baby feet...so cute!