No I didn't run it as much as I would like to say that I did!! But we did go down and watch it last weekend. And I use that term "watch" loosely! Our friends Susie and LeAnn were running it and so we took our family down to cheer them on. The whole way down my four kids were chanting"Go Susie win the race!" It was incredibly cute, they love their Auntie Susie! After taking a tour of downtown Phoenix led by Josh (actually Josh was just trying to find the starting line) we parked right around the 5 mile marker. We stood around for about 2 hours waiting for them to reach us and mocking the attire some runners choose to wear in public (or not wear for that matter lol). The entire time my kids were trashing my car (did you know that baby sunscreen will eat right through paint? and I put that on my kiddos?!?). But we did finally see them, they were doing great! We cheered and screamed and then played marathon frogger getting back across the street through all of the runners to get back to our cars. Greg and I hadn't checked out of our room yet so we needed to get back to the hotel. Unfortunately at that point we were marathon locked and couldn't get to our hotel!! Finally after about an hour and a half we made it the 8 blocks back to our hotel and checked out. Then we tried to find our way to the finish line to see Susie "win the race". Traffic was horrible so we made it to a parking space just in time for Susie and her family to make it back to her car! Dang it!! We really wanted to be supportive but hey we had fun! We got to go to lunch together (after another tour of the Valley courtesy of Josh! :) ). All in all it was a great time with great friends and now I so want to run in the half marathon, . . .someday :) !
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