Mile 1 - Running Grandma's marathon in Duluth, MN - Starting in Two Harbors...
Mile 2 - 64 degrees and sunny (here) with a high of 63 in Duluth...
Mile 3 - My twenty year old son, Kahlen, who just started running last month, is running by my side...
Mile 4 - The farthest he has ever run before today is 16.8 miles!...
Mile 5 - My daughter Jessica is waiting for us at the finish line...
Mile 6 - She was willing to wait there for nine hours since we had to get there early to catch shuttle buses to the start line!...
Mile 7 - Blog app froze up at mile 6 so I am just keeping my updates on a notepad app and updating when I an able to...
Mile 8 - It was announced earlier that this event has over six thousand volunteers!!!...
Mile 9 - My legs are feeling the effects of yesterday's two hundred plus mile drive. More soreness than I am used to...
Mile 10 - Still no signal for the blog, just storing my notes
Mile 11 - I turned my runmeter app off a while back to save battery life....
Mile 12 - So I can take photos and notes right to the end of today's 26.2 miles...
Mile 13 - It has completely clouded over and the air off the lake is nice and cold!...
Mile 14 - The leg soreness is beginning to go away!...
Mile 15 - We have been able to maintain the same exact comfortable pace the whole way so far...
Mile 16 - Kahlen is still looking real solid...
Mile 17 - Smooth sailing here on in, we still have a nice cool breeze at our back!...
Mile 18 -As slow and easy as we are going, these miles seem to be flying by!...
Mile 19 - All these volunteers that come out to support these runners are exceptional people...
Mile 20 - Along time ago I heard about a "wall" at mile twenty - The only wall I experienced was a wall on the side of the road with some beer cups on it and some great people handing them out to those who asked!...
Mile 21 - So far three people have been kind enough to give me a beer - sometimes the one they were drinking!...
Mile 22 - I am finding that the closer I get to the finish line, the easier it gets to find beer!...
Mile 23 - Four miles to go!...
Mile 24 - This is truly the easy part!...
Mile 25 - The closer we get to the finish, the easier this getting!...
Mile 26 - This has been by far the easiest marathon to date. The wind has been at my back the whole way and my son by my side...
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