The whole point of our visit to Lisbon was to run the Rock and Roll Marathon! Well, half marathon for me and Beth, while Bruce ran the full. The day before the race happened to be Beth's birthday, so we had a birthday dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe!
The morning of the race, Bruce started the full marathon a bit west of where we stayed. Beth and I took what turned out to be a THREE HOUR journey to the starting line. First, a 15 minute walk to the train station followed by 30 minutes on the train into central Lisbon. Then two subway trains took about 45 minutes more to a bus station. At the bus station we waited 30 minutes to board busses that drove another 30 minutes out onto the Vasco de Gama Bridge where the race would begin. Our bus dropped off a 20 minute walk from the start line, so we pulled up just a few minutes before the race started. NEVER imagined it would take that long!
Here is a view of the race crowd on the bridge just before the start! I know my finger is in the picture - I don't know why I do that, but I regularly photograph my finger. Sorry.
A view back towards central Lisbon from the Bridge start...
Me and Beth getting ready to go!
So there are no more race pictures of us after this - it turned out to be a fairly hot day and we were sweaty and disgusting by the time we finished! We grabbed lunch and bought dry tshirts at the mall near the finish while waiting for Bruce. He came running in a little more than 2 hours after we finished and here he is approaching the finish line - still smiling!
It was a fun race and a fun day! But we were thrilled to get back to the pool at our condo and relax for the rest of the afternoon and evening!
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