On Christmas morning at 5:15am 5 ladies from school piled into a car. There was an Elementary Librarian, an ESD teacher (helping home school families), a web master, an ESL teacher, and a Speech teacher. Two had run 10ks, two had never raced, and one (me) had only run 5ks.
We were tired, but excited and nervous. We arrived near the starting line and parked our car. We then proceeded to find the starting line and look for a restroom- we found one at the near by McDonalds! Then we headed for the starting line. The marathon runners had started at 4am and the half marathon runners started at 5am. At 6am we were off! I ran the whole way (I never had run more than 6k at one time!) and beat my goal time by one minute arriving at the finish about 69 minutes after the race began. The route took us around and in the moat that goes around the old part of the city.
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| The square is where we ran...I live down by the airport |
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| The route.... |
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| The bib, shirt, and medal...along with the green string they gave us after our last corner. This helped them know what race you were running or something... |
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| The back of the shirt...it says Chiang Mai marathon...woohoo...only ran a 4th of one... |
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| Here we are before the race started...right in front of a temple...I guess it just proves that we are in Thailand! |
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| One of the ladies is married and her husband took his motorbike around and took photos of us- this is at about 8k I think |
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| Here we are with our medals! We finished! |
I just went to Gina's and she let me take some of her Christmas Day photos (pretend Christmas on Saturday)
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| Brunch on Saturday morning was great! |
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| Opening gifts |
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| decorating the cookies... |
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| Josh joined in the fun and I closed my eyes... |
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| This was by the start/finish line. A Christmas tree made out of big water jugs??!?! Hmmm interesting |
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