New Year's Marathon

This is our group of friends that ran the Kingwood, TX Marathon on January 1st. It is the before picture so everyone is cold, but HAPPY. Duane decided he was going to make everyone laugh by wearing his "ripped abs" apron (*see disclaimer). You should have heard all the women when he came in for his first lap. They all thought it was great.















Duane finally broke his seemingly allusive sub-five hour time barrier with a new personal record of 4:57 (that's four hours and 57 minutes) for a marathon. Now remember that he racewalks these marathons, not runs them.










This is the "after" picture of the finishers.















Since this was the 10th year of this particular marathon, they decided to do something different for the medal. Their reasoning is that everything in TX is bigger . . . .
















Now that's a huge medal.


*Duane confirms that his abs look absolutely nothing like the ones on the apron.