M.O.M (My Own Marathon)

Globe is a special place. For example, there will be a nice 250k dollar house and right next door will be a double wide. For another example, there are about 12 old antique shops and zero Costcos. People do things just a little bit different here. 

Enter a really nice man named Bryan Chambers who loves running.  He always puts on his own marathon. Its actually called the MOM race. It stands for My Own Marathon. He organizes the whole thing for free. 

So Kenzie, Aaron and I sought out to do it. They picked me up a little before 6am and off we went to conquer the MOM race. It started up by the Pinal mountains. 

When we got there, we were just waiting for all the other racers to show up. We didn't have to wait long. All 7 of us arrived.

Then Bryan made the start of the race official by having us sing the national anthem. He had the actual music playing, and Aaron pulled up a picture of the American flag on his phone. At that point, it was time for the race to begin. 

We had the choice of running a 5k, 10k, half or full marathon. He had marked the race the day before and left mile markers along the route. He also dropped water bottles along the road for us. 

He had his daughter and his wife drive along the routes the whole morning making sure that everyone was OK. They also took pictures

I decided I would do the half marathon. And guess what? I won. I came in 1 out of 2 competitors! They even gave me an old bowling trophy for my efforts! Kenzie won the 10K and Bryan won the full marathon.

It was a fun and very unique experience. Who knows, maybe one year the MOM race will be a Boston qualifier? 

Besides the quirkiness of the race, I think this was my next favorite thing that day

Oh wait, and this

This just showed up on my doorstep 2 months after the race.

Ha!

PS The lady on the top is Bryan's actual mom. LOL!!!