THE GIRL ROCKS!!!

Waiting to reunite

Game over.

Marathon cancelled due to heat, health, & deaths. Meeting Lisa back @ Millennium Park now. She was doing great though.

Waiting for Lisa in Little Italy.

The first finisher we came across.

Not quite

Not Lisa yet...

Team CARE had a bowl of chocolates! Lisa should be on course now...

I beat Lisa downtown.

Almost time!

"Hi, my name's Lisa, and tomorrow, I'm going to run the freakin' Chicago Marathon...and I'm kinda excited about that!"

It's Emily again—yesterday I had breakfast with Lisa at the same diner restaurant where we put this marathon idea into action last spring. We plotted out the coordinates of us friends who will be cheering her on all day tomorrow...every few miles, she'll be supplied with Gatorade and whatever else she tells us she needs. (I may also try to incorporate a few silly motivational items along the way...)

At 8:00 am tomorrow, Lisa will begin the end of this marathon journey. By dinnertime, she'll be relaxing and recovering. For the time in between, she's going to be one of the most awesome people I know.

Invading the blog again...

Hello all!

It's Emily again, posting because...well, just because I have access and I can. :-)

Lisa is away from Chicago and visiting her family this week, but don't think that means she's also taking a vacation from running. I talked to her on Wednesday, and she's been braving the heat, humidity, hills (ahh, the flat streets of Chicago!), and icky bugs to keep up with her workouts.

She even went on a run with her father. If they were puppies, that run would look kinda like this:


More details from her later!

Also, Lisa...you need to submit to this. (Ignore the deleted comment; I originally posted the link there and later edited the post to include it here instead.)