Tuesday, October 20, 2009

chicago marathon

Darin and I headed to Chicago two weekends ago to watch my brother, Eric, run the Chicago marathon. I'm so proud of Eric. He ran in honor of his son Evan, age 6, who is on the autism spectrum and raised over $3500 to fund autism research! Running a marathon is an incredible accomplishment. Both physically and mentally exhausting! Around mile 6, at the end of the street our friend's jen & matt live on. See Darin there in the lower right hand corner raising his mug. You just can't help cheer the runners on!

Here's Eric around mile 9.

I had to snap a photo of this sign which is the title of one of The Effort's songs.

Ok just had to take a photo of this guy. I couldn't believe some of the costumes we saw. Unfortunately I had my camera put away when the grim reaper passed by.
Eric, Megan, Evan, Ryan and Rachel after the race. Congrats Eric!!