Houston Marathon / half maathon

I signed up for the full, will also be my first one (hopefully).  If our team makes it it, I'll be running in honor of my brother, Toast, who passed in 2008 and was an avid runner/marathoner.  

I'm trying to not be too intimidated by the distance (I've done a couple of half marathons), and don't really have a time goal right now.  I'd love to see if I could get it done in 4:30 - 5:00 range, but I don't know how much walking I'll have to do.  Just finishing will be the primary goal, of course.

Cheers,

Eric

Congrats to everyone who made it - my team made it as well!  If you're a solo runner in the marathon and want to be a part of our effort, please let me know!  We are "Team Toast," a group started by two friends of my late brother in 2009.  They wanted to carry on his tradition of raising funds for the Texas Lions Camp.  Here's a link to his story from the Chronicle after he passed in 2008: 

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-deaths/article/Greg-Vinson-35-raised-money-to-aid-disabled-1771517.php

I never had the guts to try a marathon until now (long story), so this will be my first time to run with these awesome women who started the "Team Toast" tradition.  

Cheers,

Eric

I've heard from one person that didn't get into the half, but none from the full yet.

My wife, sister in law, and I got in for the full.

I did the 5k tieed to marathon in 2008, but that was before I got into tri's.

My Sister in law has done 2 Marathons but this will be my first.  In fact she did austin in 2011 and afterwards I said "I can't see ever doing a marathon, I might do a short tri or something" and my wife found Kemah was 6 weeks later....