Flew out to Indiana with Ryan Shininger and Stacey Spence to participate in the 2008 Indy 500 half marathon. We flew out of DIA to Chicago and then rented a car to travel from Chicago to West Lafayette, IN. Stacey dropped us at Ryan's brother's (Keith's) house and she traveled on down to Bloomington, IN for her sister's college graduation from IU. We partied Thursday night in West Lafayette and hit the road Friday for Indianapolis--but first we took a trip over to Purdue University (Ryan's alma mater) for a little site seeing. When we got to Indianapolis, we met with the rest of Ryan's immediate family. We picked up our race packets from the convention center and started the carb loading. Took it easy Friday night and played Nintendo Wii. Saturday morning was the 13.1 mile race. I ran it in 1:44:38 (a new PR for me I guess). The total attendance for the race was 35,000 runners. Sunday we went back to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway to check out the hall of fame, watch the rookie training, and listen to the bands. The Indy 500 is Sunday, 5-25-08.
Me and Neil Armstrong at Purdue University (no, I'm not trying to break his neck!):
Ryan and Matt after finishing the half marathon:
Crowd after the marathon and 5K:
Mary, Ben, Lori, Mom and Dad Shininger, Matt, Ryan, and Keith at a pizza joint the evening after the race:
Ryan and Matt at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (opening day, rookie training):
2 comments:
Why were you trying to break Neil's neck?
[snicker] I wasn't really going for that look...but it does look like I am trying to break his neck...doesn't it? Hats off to the man! Neil rocks!
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