Results In -- An Amazing Race

Well, we did it!!! 'Thong & I beat my San Francisco Half time of 2:39 by 4 minutes. We finished at 2:35!!!!

It was great. It felt great. And we looked great! AMAZING!!!

The Turtle (Penguin) would be so proud.
We wore our Running Divas T-shirts much to the embarrassment of 'Thong's son who flew up from sunny south Florida to run in 45 degree weather. We opted not to tell him until after the race that the shirts came with tiaras! Which, of course, we put on immediately post race!! We knew our superhero fan base would expect no less. Am I right or am I right?!!

After all it was 'Thong's birthday!! Shouldn't every Superhero Chick wear a tiara

on her birthday? That's what I thought!

Here is the official race recap: It was a beautiful, crisp morning. The race started in downtown Chattanooga @ 7:30am EST. We ran along the riverwalk, turned around at the halfway point (6.55 m) & then ran back along the river walk to finish back right where we started. It was a very small event. And I mean this. Small. The newspaper today said 165 completed the Half. I'm not quite sure what the completed part means. If anyone dropped out of the race part way through, I feel certain we would have seen them lying around or sitting on a curb...it was a very narrow course. And, since the race organizers had asked for volunteers to bring up the rear of the group, and, since 'Thong & I already knew we'd win a prize for best dressed and had volunteered for that job -- I really think we would have seen the quitters. I'm just kidding... about them asking for volunteers. But 'Thong & I did finish in the spot typically saved for the best. Yes, that would be LAST. & what made it even more hilarious is that they literally were shutting the race down as we passed by. It was hard for me to convince her that at a larger venue, like Nashville, there will be hundreds of people running with us at our pace. As we came down the hill to the finish line over the loud speaker they actually announced, "Here they come!!! The last two finishers of the 2006 Chattanooga Half Marathon!!" If we hadn't have been so ecstatic over the fact that 'Thong hadn't succumbed to an asthma attack & we were actually beating my SF time....I think we might have been offended. But as it was,we were elated. And haven't stopped laughing about it!! Her supercute son finished the race under 2 hours. It was the first "long" race he had run in his life & he trained all of 3 seconds for it. Isn't youth wasted on the youth!?!

So that, my dear superhero friends, is that!!! It was an amazing race. We are now looking forward to the Country Music Half Marathon at the end of April. Just look for us...we'll be the cute superhero chicks in the back!!!

P.S. What you can't see in these pics is that we had DIVA! tatoos on our cheeks. One fellow lady runner wanted to know where we got them. We attempted to explain that they had come from home, but she was convinced that someone, somewhere was holding out on her! We laughed so hard we nearly peed!