A Drop in the Bucket List

Guess what I did on Saturday?

I walked in my first marathon!

Yes, Dillypoo participated in a 5K, and it was so much fun!

I talked The Professor into dropping me off near the starting point with a promise to pick me up after I finished. That meant I didn't have to get there three hours before my race just to find parking (the marathon, half marathon, ultra marathon and 10K started before the 5K).

Thank you, sweetheart!

I still had to wait about 45 minutes in the cold (it was a brisk 38ish degrees Saturday morning). My fingers were numb by the time we started.

I did pretty good for my first time, I think. I finished in 50 minutes and 8 seconds, averaging 16 minutes a mile! And I was the 3,142nd person to cross the finish line out of 3,730 participants. But I was walking and a lot of them were running.

I was even walking fast enough to pass other people!

I can't wait to do it again!