the last official team run

on saturday, i went out to run our very last official team run. the entire national capital team, including the dc, virginia and maryland teams, all gathered together for the last run of the season. although we do have another run this weekend, it's an "unofficial run" since most of our coaches will be in san francisco to cheer on the TNT participants who will be running in the nike womens marathon! anyway, this was probably my favorite run of the season. why you ask? because we ran to the marine corps memorial (iwo jima), which will be the finish line for the marine corps marathon! we were also joined by a corps of marines, who ran with us. and not only did they run with us, but for every street that we crossed, one marine would stay behind and stop traffic so that all of us runners could run by. after a 2 mile run to the memorial, we stopped for a bit to enjoy the beautiful morning sun and the great view of washington, dc in front of us. our coaches talked to us about what this would mean the next time we would be there and how exciting it would be for us to run the marine corps marathon, especially since we all live in the dc metropolitan area. after this short stop, we continued on our run for another 6 miles to total an 8 mile run (which seemed like a really short run!)

since this was the last run, i also took along my camera so that i could capture something on film of the last 6 months of my life. embedded in this post are photos of the friends i have made with team in training. i also included one photo of our entire team and a photo of the marines before our run began. i can't believe the marathon is now less than 2 weeks away!!!
















the photos are from top to bottom: men from the marine corps; michelle, hallie and bill; janelle, rich and anna