Marathon Man

Mike has done a lot of races in his life but Saturday night, May 26 was his first marathon.  The marathon was originally supposed to start at 11:00pm but the time was changed to 12:30am so it actually ended up being on Sunday.  The name of the race is the Sundown Marathon. 

Sammy, Bailey and I decided to be superfans and stay up all night to cheer on dear old dad!  So, we left the house around 11:30 pm to meet the man of honor at the starting line of the race, which was down on Republic Avenue.  The problem with trying to meet him at the starting line turned out to be finding parking.  We tried a couple of carparks and quickly found out that they were closed for the night.  Then we tried parking on the streets but that was a joke b/c there was a 10K, 1/2 marathon and marathon going on which meant that 10,000 + people were down in that area.

So, we missed Mike at the starting line.  I was worried about missing him the next few places nearby so we got in the car and drove to the East Coast to catch him along there somewhere.  We camped out and watched for him.  We were happy to see him coming along so Sammy & Bailey ran along with him for a bit while I filmed.  Then Mike was too fast so they let him go and we waited for him to come back the other direction.  This time all three of us ran with him for a bit and Bailey played Rocky music with her i-touch and smiggle speaker as we ran along.  He got too fast for us again so we left and headed for the finish line.  Our intent was to run the last kilometer with him but it was roped off so we just waited at the finish line and tried hard to stay awake...since it was approaching 4:30am at this point.  We were totally PSYCHED when we saw the clock hit 3:58 and could see Mike heading for the Finish Line!  He finished his first marathon ever in under 4 hours!  Not bad!

There was rain for the last half of the race which was great and cut through some of the awful Singapore humidity a bit.  Stay tuned for many more races this next year for Mike, leading up to Ironman New Zealand on March 2, 2013.

Just finished!

Sammy & Bailey waiting to go home.  We were so wet and muddy.

Waiting at the finish line was tiring at 4:30am but it was worth it to see him finish so strong!