richmond

we just spent three days up in richmond, virginia. we stayed with our friends chris and katharine and their daughter elizabeth.
tim gave a talk at virginia commonwealth university on thursday where his friend wes is an assistant professor. friday we spent the morning at the richmond childrens museum (benjamin loved it!) and then spent the afternoon driving along the marathon course to find places i could spot tim.

then saturday tim ran the 26.2 miles (and says that the last 0.2 was the longest 0.2 miles he's ever run in his life!). but he made it with a time of 4:00:36! i met him at 5.5 miles,
11 miles, and 21 miles,
making my way through closed streets/freeway offramps and was very thankful to chris for making me take the big richmond map! it definitely came in handy. benjamin was a great sport with getting in and out of the car, and i rewarded him with lots of fun time playing with the leaves at the 21 mile mark!