Annie Blades a Marathon

Written By: Dan
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What a weekend!  Friday morning we dropped off Hobee to spend the weekend peeing on his favorite girl, Vanessa.  After work Annie and I headed to Grand Rapids to hang out with Charlie and Mary.  We had a blast.  The cooks cooked us up a great meal (turkey burgers, a home made salad, and grilled veggies).  After dinner we played Beer Pong and Euchre until we crashed out.  After another great breakfast meal we headed to Chicago. 

The purpose of the short drive to Chicagoland was Annie's In-Line Skate Marathon.  Annie has been training for weeks.  She did a great job.  We did a great job to prep: We scouted the track the day before,we  ate a good pasta dinner (with Penny and Erin), watched a marathon (Jersey Shore marathon on MTV) and got a good night's sleep.



 
The next morning Erin made us breakfast (what awesome friends do we have -we owe a few couples some pretty impressive meals after these last few days). We then headed to the meet.  Annie dressed to blade, and Erin in I in custom made (by Erin) "You Roll, Girl" tee shirts.

The marathon was held at the AT&T complex in Hoffman Estates, up the road from the Himmelspach residence.  It was a great venue.  It held sponsors, runners, bikers, spectators, and a mess of nervous rollerbladers (Annie being one).  After the race started we realized how fast this marathon was.  Some of the serious bladers skated by in a perfect line to start their SECOND lap before we could blink.  Annie was not far behind.   Annie has been training for weeks, and put up even better speeds than expected.  After a little more than an hour she was done, tired, and proud.  She was great. We celebrated by taking her out to breakfast.  We had already eaten once, but when you finish at 10:30 you don't have many choices for a celebration venue.