This one's a picture inside Cobo Hall. It's where we signed up, and were ready to go. I think it's symbolic, because of the dedication that Joe Louis (the statue) had for the city. I just really liked this picture. It was taken around 6:45am, where people were starting to gather for the 8:00am run.
This I thought was pretty cool. You're looking at over 7000 people. It was packed right before the start. Everyone was awesome, talking to each other, giving encouragement. I'm not sure if the guy at the bottom right was thrilled about being part of my blog, however. He probably blew me away by about 20 minutes, though. Ate his dust.
This was pretty cool. A good picture of the RenCen here in Detroit. Notice the fog creeping up near the top.
A good zoom up on the guys who started the race. The guy with the horn.. well, he started it off. My first ever "shotgun start", and the horn faltered, and was all air. Bummer.
This was pretty cool. It's about the 1 mile point, in front of the famous Fox theatre. I should have taken a picture to my right as well.. you would have found the home of the American League Champions, Comerica Park. Home of the Detroit Tigers.
What I found impressive were the people just watching. They were early for the Parade, but they were cheering us on, clapping and chanting for us. It was pretty motivational. Here I am, thinking I'm going to die, and you hear total strangers rooting you on. It was very cool.
There's a couple more I'll post tomorrow. It seems blogspot.com doesn't want to let me upload more to this post. Catch you tomorrow!
2 comments:
Great job Rob. Those are some great pics. See you got a little bit of Hockeytown Cafe as well as Fox Theatre. This is some brave stuff your doing here, I know I couldn't do it. Keep it up.
Rob, back in August, I walked in the Breast Cancer 3 Day. I would have never imagined, in a million years, that there would have been so many people along the route cheering the walkers on. Cars would pass us and blow horns and folks would yell out the window. As we walked through neighborhoods, people would sit in their front yards and clap and cheer for us. Some even set up water stations and food stations for us. It was totally awesome!! So I completely understand how you felt! Keep up the good work!!
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