Divas 1/2 Marathon

After a cold, bleak two days, my mother & I ran the Divas 1/2 Marathon on a beautiful Sunday morning in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. We were up before the sun along with 4,400 other anxious women to embark on 13.1 fairly flat miles.

This year began with a turbulent take-off. Now it feels like this ride I am on has leveled off and is coasting in the right direction, beginning with this past weekend's difficult but fun race with my mother, almost exactly two months after the death of my father: