The Boston Marathon! Wow I can't believe I really made it here! The marathon of marathons! April 21st, 2008... a super busy time in life, when I was engaged (trying to get the invitations done), graduating, and during finals week (I luckily had supportive professors that all let me take my finals a week early)...ALL worth it! So much fun! My mom and dad paid for the airline ticket as my graduation gift. My mom came out with me so I wouldn't have to be all alone. :) 
We stayed with a great member family who lived in Boston that took great care of us. We did some sight seeing the days before the marathon, but mostly relaxed and really enjoyed Boston. What a beautiful old city. Great historic background and neat to visit the different places that mean so much to the history of this great country.
I had a great time just being with my mom, but oh how I missed Taylor too! I'm talking to him on the phone (above) here. Below is a pic of my mom and I in front of the Boston Temple...another great place to be of course!
Here's some pics of race day!...
My friend Mary Kay and I qualified in St. George and so fun to have this experience together!
Here's the stats...Bib#: 13582
Age: 24
Age Division: F 18-39
Division Place: 18-39: 2357 of 4908
Gender Place: 3298 of 8935
Overall Place: 11401 of 21963
Finish Chip Time: 3:47:41
Finish Clock Time: 3:56:53 (shows how long it took me to even get to the start of the race :) So many people!)
Here's my times broken down even more...I loved that they did this for not only me to see when I was done, but they also had this texting option where anyone who wanted to follow my race times could get a text at every point. My dad and Taylor were able to get updates on how I was doing...Cool huh?!
5K: 0:24:44
10K: 0:49:39
15K: 1:15:17
Half: 1:47:18
30K: 2:35:38
35K: 3:04:03
40K: 3:34:10
Pace: 0:08:41
