5:48

I finished the marathon -- 26.2 miles

only took me 5 hours and 48 minutes. ..which is good, seeing as how the cut off time was 6 hrs.

Which means, I made it with time to spare. They gave me a bitchin' medal too !

I'll post a picture here too

in place of this here text. ..

soon as I get my digital camera

to cooperate.

Once they put it around my neck, I really had no intention of taking it off . .. so I wore it over to the Claim Jumper to get me a replenishing size serving of . .. whatever. No one made question about it, even with the John Wayne lookin' demeanor I had going for me as I staggered from here to there.

My goal for next time -- beat my time from this marathon . .. I feel that's reasonable in terms of goal-setting. Besides finishing the marathon, the only thing better is getting to check another goal of the list of life experiences I just can't miss.