The first weekend in March we headed down to Eric's parents house in Albany. Eric and his dad signed up for the half marathon months ago. Eric started training in January. This was his first half marathon, and I think his dad's 4th or so. Eric did really good training and was prepared for the big day. Of course his dad had training he did also. However his dad runs consistently throughout the year, which makes a big difference. Eric runs here and there but nothing consistent until hopefully now he has the bug.
The morning of the run it starts raining and radar shows that it's not going to stop. The race started at 7:00. They ran the first 2 miles in a downpour then the rain stopped until the very end of the race luckily. Pam, boys and I arrived to the race around 8. The boys got to play at turtle park for a little bit before we walked down to the finish line to wait for Brad and Eric. Turtle park is such a beautiful place and it has such gorgeous scenery which you can see in some of the pictures below. Brad finished with an outstanding time of 1:51 and he won 2nd place in his age group. Keep in mind he is 58 years old! We are especially proud of him! Eric finished a little behind his dad at 2:08 and got 30th place out of 60 people in his age group. He wanted to run under 2 hours but did a fabulous job anyways! We all we very excited and proud of them! They have plans of doing another one together next year! We had such a wonderful time in Albany and granddad surprised boys with a special treat on Sat night.... I'm doing a separate post on this so stay tuned!
