Inaugural Rock and Roll Pasadena Half Marathon Weekend

Omg i am so tired.......probalbly not a good idea to post tired but oh well....im completly ignoring spelling and gramtical errors this post because of it.......get over it.............
it is now 10:28pm and last night i got to bed at 11:30pm just to wake up again at 5am
it has been a tiring and eventful day.
for the people who live near the rose bowl you might know what happened today....how did you guys like the traffic? Today was the Inaugural Rock and Roll Pasadena Marathon, Half Marathon benifitng CureMito......YAY!!!!!!!!!for a inaugural run it was incredible impressive......it drove me to tears while i was in the traffic for parking spots....i was told that there were over 7000 runners, a speculated amount of double the spectators, and over $100,000 dollars raised by the runners to go to CureMito to fund research.
it was amazing.....but i think you have to see the pictures to understand.............thats right people this is a mass picture blog post.
Lets start at the expo which went on friday and saturday

 

This one is of the CureMito merchindise

 

This is of Dr. Richard Boles and his three kids Phillp (oldest), Henry (middle) and Caroline (youngest) and if i remember correctly Henry and Caroline both have mild forms of Mitochondrial Disorders......but then again it is 10:38pm

 

And this is the banner that was in front of the booth

Now lets go to the pasta dinner saturday night before the race

 

This was one of the three shown in front of the stage

 

Thats me and my friend (who also has mito) Carrie

 

Thats me and Chandra Wilson of Grey's Anatomy....her daughter has a mitochondrial disease and she has become the spokes person for CureMito

 

This is me with my daddy......i believe it was his first time going to something like this and seeing me have to answer questions.....he would have seen my do a speech but they cut that from the evenings festivities.......

 

and this is a second one of the ones that were in front of the stage

You still with me???? Good now its on to race day!!!!

 

Here is a close up on the CureMito Reusable Bag

  

Here is the CureMito Beach Ball (signed by Sugar Ray for my friend Carrie and her Brother Connor)

  

This was actually taken at the expo but it was put in my race day collection before i found that out.....It is now 11:00pm.....i offically don't care

 

This is my friend Carrie with Sugar Ray

 

This is Me and my Mom with Sugar Ray

 

Sugar Ray is holding up a T-shirt and 2 balls all with the Cure Mito logo on them!!!

 

Me and my Mom Backstage before Sugar Ray goes on to play for the runners who've already gotten back

 

This is Carrie's Mom and she is telling Mark about Mito while he signs the Beach Ball

 

Mark with the Wheelchair Winners (these people all need wheelchairs and the lady [her name is sandi] has one over 50 races with her special racing chair)

 

The Winners

Mark raising his glass to those who ran

 

I really wanted a pic with him in the background and it turned out epic

 

At the end of the day they got most of the CureMito people together for a group photo.....can you find waldo???(aka me)

Soon days with this much excitment it makes it hard for me to sleep.....i just hope its soon because otherwise i will pass out......im running on 5 hours sleep and 18 hours of being awake.....6 more hours and will have gone 24 with 5 hours sleep............not good for mito kids..........you other mito kids know exactly what i mean....................okay it is officially 11:08....................lets see if i can sleep now.............other wise im gonna have a midnight blog blast............(i dont even know what that means) computer off....lights off............sleep mask on..............night!!!!!!!!!