Congratulations to Bryan on accomplishing a longtime goal and running the San Antonio Rock n Roll Marathon on November 14. Bryan has wanted to run a marathon for quite sometime but life always seemed to get in the way. I think it was much more exciting for him to do it now and have his biggest fan waiting for him at the end. I
like to think I am his biggest fan but Gio certainly wins that title. After months of training in the Texas summer heat and 6:00 a.m. darkness, Bryan smashed his 4 hour goal and finished the marathon in 3:35!!!
I am so grateful that Bryan did this as we had a wonderful weekend supporting him. Since there was rain predicted, Max made the executive decision to stay back with Bry's parents. He
probably knew that sitting in the stroller for hours was not going to be terribly exciting! Gio was a superstar and had a great time, cheering at all the runners on and telling me "I made a runner smile"..it was great. Since I am not very familiar with downtown San Antonio (OK, not familiar with it at all) we parked downtown and picked a few places to view but since those spots were while Bryan was running with the marathoners and half marathoners, we didn't get to see him at all. Although Gio was disappointed, I think I was disappointed even more. Hello, we made signs AND had a whistle. While the weather was chilly for San Antonio (in the 5o's) Gio and I passed the time and really enjoyed cheering everyone else and holding out hope to see Bryan.
We took a little break for coffee and rushed to the finish line. Actually we ran because I thought Bryan was going to just kill his goal so we didn't want to miss him. We were able to get to the Alamodome with plenty of time to see him at mile 26 of 26.2 and we cheered and cheered "go daddy, go Bryan, you're almost there". He gave us the thumbs up and he ran right past us. We found out later he didn't even see us! Oh well, we were glad to have seen him and maybe subconsciously gave him that extra push to make it up hill. Honestly, I'm pretty confident Bryan was mentally prepared to make it all on his own but we're glad to have been able to support him and witness him meeting that goal.
Even immediately after the race, Bryan was is much better shape than I ever would have imagined! He rested and then was able to get his well-deserved free beer! Congrats, Bry, on your determination to run a marathon even though every day there are obstacles standing in your way! I would like to say that I'll be doing that next, but I'm pretty confident in one thing: that's not going to happen!
