Saturday, April 11, 2009

Two Oceans.

The Easter weekend has, for our family, always been synonymous with the Two Oceans Marathon. That is because we've been marshaling since I was about 12!

This year, however, we had a runner in the family!! My sister (the British one who weighs her potatoes individually at the supermarket!!!) took part in the half marathon for the first time.

For us this entailed waking up very early (4:45a.m. to be exact!) and heading off at 5:50a.m.- long before sunrise - to stand along the roadside to cheer her on.

For her it entailed waking up at 4:00a.m. and putting one foot in front of the other for 21km from Newlands through Constantia and up to the finish at UCT.

Here is the evidence that we were actually there:

Because despite the fact that we stood on the Main rd for about 40 minutes watching literally13000 runners go past and then outside Kirstenbosch for about an hour, we didn't see her pass us once!! We were all prepared with our 3-part sign saying "Go Bev Go" but it ended up in a crumpled ball in the bottom of the pram!!

She did really well finishing in 2hrs 38min.

Here she is sporting her medal:

Well done Bev, we'll see you at the Ultra next year!!!

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