26.2 miles of smiles
Despite a week of relentless rain, the over 15,000 participants in the SunTrust marathon (AKA “America’s Friendliest Marathon”), the McDonald’s half marathon, and the HCAVA 8k were granted a bit of a break on Saturday, just in time to get their run on. Take a look…
Soundtrack
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SunTrust marathon champion Jynocel Basweti, 22, of Kenya celebrating his second consecutive win.
Salome Kogsei, 29, took first place in the female division. This was her first full marathon… and she decided to enter “at the last minute.”
Congratulations to everyone who ran. You should be so proud of yourselves. (And don’t forget – they’re already doing sign-ups for next year’s races!)
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Christophile Konstas
Christophile Konstas is a photographer, video editor, filmmaker, and food lover. She is also a mama to a little boy named Linus.
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I don’t think I will ever understand the desire to run a marathon. Or people who enjoy running at all for that matter. But good for them… good for them.
I’m also definitely not a runner, but I’m amazed by people who do it.
I never liked running growing up, either in high school or the Marines. Once I was in my 30s and started running to lose weight, the goal of running a marathon seemed very far off and unattainable. But, the desire was definitely there and I can honestly say it’s one of the biggest accomplishments of my life. It’s not just crossing the line after nearly 4 1/2 hours, it’s completing the months of training to get there. I nearly cried when they put the medal around my neck.
Great pictures guys (and girls). They really capture the spirit of the day.
That last picture makes me want to cry every time I look at it.
There’s a good story that accompanies the finish line photos. I was standing with the rest of the photographers at the finish line and we were all jockeying for a position to get a shot of Basweti crossing the finish line. And I couldn’t see anything so I step out (me, all 38 weeks preggers step out in front of everyone) and this guys shoves me from behind and then another guy half catches/half drags me away right as Basweti is crossing, so I missed that shot. AND probably ruined half of everyone else’s shots. MY APOLOGIES! It was dumb of me (baby brain dumb) to be in the way.
THAT GUY HATES BABIES!
Whoa wait, he PUSHED you?
Name. I NEED A NAME.
I’m feeling wrath….
Move amazing is the MILES of TRASH they loeft behind, how many thousands of physically fit individuals and companies sponsoring it, and the mounds of trash LEFT IN RICHMOND NEIGHBORHOODS, take a drive past the corner of sherwood and brook, for example…. NOT LEFT BY SPECTATORS, AS THIS IS IN THE STREET- diamond springs cups, blue and white, then red cups, and power-fuel packages. In the curbline… right beside where there USED to be sports-backers signs that were cautiously removed afterward by the very same people who fed them this water and junk, and left not picking up their mess, came back to remove their signs and STILL turned their backs on the mess, left behind for residents to have to tolerate, it’s not our responsibility to clean it up, we were already denied access to our homes and/or a normal day by those who created the mess.
How about “26.2 miles of TRASH?”
Clean up your mess, big physically fit people, get some exercise doing something useful, cleaning up your mess.