No Haste In The Race

Fourth Street Live!

One of Louisville's entertainment and dining landmarks near our hotel.

 

 
 

 

 

 

It's Official: 4:51:47

Our official time is: 4:51:47. 

Actually, Kelsey's official time is: 4:51:48  :-)

Race results are here:

http://results.active.com/pages/searchform.jsp?posted_p=t&numPerPage=50&page=122&rsID=91664&sex=F&queryType=division&pubID=3#VIEW

Isn't it gorgeous?

Heading back to hotel now. Will post more photos later this afternoon. Thank you everyone for your comments and encouragement! It REALLY helped! --Denise and Kelsey :-)

 

Blog posted here.

And we're done! The Elusive Mile 13.1

I am very happy to be sitting down! Our time is roughly 4:54. Where's the beer?

 

Tennnn! Lonely, Lonely Mile 10

Almost there!

Blog posted here.

 

At Miles 10 and 11 the course goes silent. No cheering crowds, no street musicians, nothing. Once we even took a wrong turn and had to turn around to get back on the race course. Feet aren't happy about backtracking when they've already done eleven miles.

YOUR COMMENTS AT THIS POINT ARE VERY INSPIRING AND MUCH APPRECIATED!

We never saw Mile Markers 12 or 13.

 

 

 

 

 

Mile 9

Blog posted here.

 

Mile 9 was a row of beautiful homes:

 

 

 

  
  

 

Miles 7 & 8: The Famous and Fabled Churchill Downs

Blog posted here.

   

 

Mile 5

It has stopped raining! Feeling great!

Miles 5 and 6 I was chatting with a woman who was doing her first half marathon. She told me she'd had a habit of not finishing things in her life and she was hoping that today would be a turning point for her. She wanted her husband and her son to be proud of her. She had brought along her friend who walked about a block ahead of her and acted as her de facto cheerleader. I told her to visualize the finisher medal around her neck; that that always motivated me. She was worried that they wouldn't have a finisher medal for her since she expected she'd cross the finish line after the race had officially "closed". I reassured her that I was a veteran of crossing closed finish lines and that they would indeed have a medal for her.

I lost track of her shortly before Mile 7. But I saw her friend at the finish line and she told me that unfortunately, she had to stop at Mile 12. 

Blog posted here.

Mile 3

Miles 1 through 4 are through Iroquois Park. Beautiful park, but mostly uphill.

This sign is really telling. Maybe we should have listened.

  

Blog posted here.

Mile 1

21.18 minutes...a reasonably good start.

Blog posted here.