26.2 DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We are here to write our victory post!! Katie and I had a great race today and successfully completed ALL 26.2 miles in Philadelphia today--our first (and probably last) marathon. Our apologies to those of you who were hoping to ever run with us again :) We're retired. The race was fun yet challenging and we couldn't have made it without our family and friends who came out to the course to support us. Special Shout Outs to: The Kalbach Family, The Hartford Family, Aunt Faith, Uncle Bill, the Brown Panthers & Leah. YOU GUYS ROCK!! We also loved to hear from everyone who left us phone calls & text messages throughout the day. We were so encouraged to know that people all over the country were pulling for us!

Run Highs: Revisiting favorite haunts in Philly, returning to Penn's campus, cheering fans, accomplishing our goal AND THE FINISH.
Run Lows: Hills in Manayunk, cold weather (especially after optimistically throwing away our warm clothes at Mile 2, ooops), Miles 15-17 and blisters for both of us.

Post Run Food (our favorite section to blog about): Hot chicken broth in the finisher's tent, Philly soft pretzels, New Deck cheese fries & potato skins washed down with Woodchuck cider & Yuengling beer. Good stuff!