Peachtree Road Race

Thurs night we went and spent the night at my SIL's (Corrie) house so the kids could stay with her while we ran the PRR. We got up at 5am Friday morning to get ready for the race. We had to be at the Marta station early to get parking. We got to the station at 6:20am and found one of the very last parking spaces available. All the Marta lots on our end of 400 were filled by 6:30am. We got to Peachtree Street just in time to see the very beginning of the race. It was so exciting. Since we were in time group 9 we had to wait a long time before we could start the race. They let time group 1 start then ten mins later time group 2 got to start then 10 mins later time group 3 and so on. Time group 9 was the very last group to start. After watching the beginning of the race we had to walk another 1/2 mile or so to get to our time group area. The race started at 7:30am and I think we finally got to start around 10:00am. There were 9,000 people running in our time group so it was very crowded. We didn't get to run as much as we had hoped to because of all of the people in the way. I know not to check the casual runner/walker box next year. That is why we got put in time group 9 with all the walkers. Nothing wrong with walking it but we wanted to run. Before we got to start the race they had already announced a winner. The guy that won finished in 28:30. He had around a 4.5 min/mile. That is insane to me. People were cheering us on from the sides of the roads. Everyone was spraying us with water so we were soaking wet. So much fun. Corrie brought Mikey and Ella to the race. We got to see them about a mile before the finish line. We stopped and hugged them and then got back to it. I hope that they always remember us doing things like the PRR. We finished the race together in 1 hour and 40 mins. Our goal was to finish in under 2 hours. We did it! We got our T-shirts and had our finisher picture taken then it was a mile walk to the Marta station. Once we got back to the station that we parked at we couldn't find the car. In the excitement and craziness of the morning we couldn't remember where we parked. After a 20 min (probably another mile) walk we finally found the car. All told we walked/ran about 10 miles Friday. It was lots of fun and we will definitely do it again. We are actually planning on doing a half-marathon in November in Tenn.

If you want to see some pictures from the PRR you can go to www.marathonfoto.com . The race was the Peachtree Road Race 2008. Last name: Hill Number: 97111 (mine) or 97112 (Jon's).

I am really proud of us for finishing the PRR.