13.1 miles...cause they're only half crazy!

The kiddos were back in town on Friday evening. By Saturday afternoon we were in the middle of a super duper Atlanta traffic jam! Our downtown area hotel (and those around it) was being converged upon by St. Paddy's day revelers (all wearing green even when it was NOT their color...usually with beads and an early start on the imbibing), 6,000 Mo-mo Con attendee's (a very strange collection of folk going about as comic/video game/movie characters with pink hair, tails, masks, swords...smoking cigarettes) and 15,000 distance runners (another strange group...eating granola, donating to the local food bank, perusing organic foods and running shoes at the fitness expo)! Safe at last in our hotel...we were off to the expo to pick up the 1/2 marathon packets for my little runner peeps!

And run they did! They were awesome! Up early to make our way to the starting corrals by 6:45 in Centennial Park....and they were off with loud speakers booming Bono!

So many runners passed by me at the start that I didn't catch even a glimpse of the Morris Marathoners! But, I had a great view of each of them whirling (B especially! The kids were with me as we cheered him into the final gate!) through the lane to the finish!

Stats:
Roo - Time = 1:49:53 (that's 1 hour, 49 minutes and 53 seconds for the uninitiated!) She came in 1,115 overall and was 8th of 101 in her age group!
Freddo - Time = 1:50:29 He came in 1,185 overall and was 57th of 182 in his age group! Really awesome for an 800 runner!
Benti - Time = 2:53:33. He finished up at the big 8,046 position...and was still smiling...and not on the pick-em up truck...nor anywhere near the end!! (He WAS beaten, however, by a dwarf...for real...not joking...and a man with no legs...not even kidding...he was wearing metal legs with spring feet...AMAZING! We thought about not telling B....but....Nahhhh! It's been way too much fun!!!)

The winner came in at one hour, five minutes. And the first female was finished in one hour, fourteen minutes. They were all amazing athletes!

So then the aMazing Morris Marathoners were whisked back to the hotel on their Magical feet, Managed to collect their car, in the Midst of Massive Mayhem with little Management by the hotel valet, and Made good time to St. George for Marvelous shrimp and grits at Boss Oyster! Mmmmmm, mmmmm, good!

This day...brought to you, by the Miraculous letter M! - c