Here N and I am ready to leave for the big day. The picture isn't all that great but oh well, you get the idea.

We dropped D off at baseball practice and off we went. (He was being babysat so it's not like we just left him by himself ya know...)We got to the dome and watched the last of the Team Trials. The kid race was next and we started to get ready...

We put on our skates and warmed up a bit. We waited in the stairway for the time to be right....

AND WE WERE OFF!!! We started fast - faster than I wanted too but the adrenaline was pumping ya know? People were racing by like mad. They were announcing the lap times over the loud speaker. I mean, what a way to psych a person out ya know? There was no way I would be making a time good enough for them to announce it to the world...

N did awesome and did a couple laps faster than I did. She finished with a 1:13 and finished in time to skate the last lap with me.

I can't tell you how great it was to cross the line with my sister next to me. She told me the time I needed to beat. I was in so much pain the last 5 laps it wasn't even funny. I mustered up whatever I had left inside and pushed myself to sprint the last lap.

I crossed the line with 1:22 which was 6 minutes faster than last years marathon.

I did it. I beat my goal!!