Madonna, My First Marathon And More

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It has been one busy week!  Wednesday night I gave a presentation to the most delightful group of women.  I spoke on the topic of 'Finding Your Personal Style' to a neighborhood garden club.  I admitted to right away it was my first time presenting on behalf of the Queen City Style, and I think they took it pretty easy on me.  Everyone seemed to have a great time.  I know I did! 

An Example Slide

Then came Thursday night; a night I have been waiting for my entire life.  I saw Madonna live in concert.  Here's a picture of me as a little girl with a poster of Madonna hanging behind me, performing perhaps my most favorite of her songs, Dress You Up.

I purchased the tickets back in February and originally planned to post about the show every month leading up to the concert, but we all know about not having enough time.  I, myself, could not believe I did not have a clue what I was going to wear until the night prior to the show, but I ended up happy with some garb already in my closet. I ran to the nearest costume for the pies de resistance, finger-less black lace gloves.  How'd I do?

I paid my fanny in savings for seats on the sixth row.  Here's my girl, Madge, doing her scantily-clad thing.  She's totally still got it.  There are no words to describe the caliber of the performance of this show or the choreography.  She performed Like A Prayer, just before the closing performance.  My life is complete.

My new friend, Derek, was dying over the gloves, so I gave him one at the end of the show.  So fun!

Saturday morning I woke up early to run my first marathon.  Wow, it was hard.  I qualified for Boston with a time of 3:29.  Very excited, but I did say this would be my first and only!

Me and my running buddy, Justin, clowning around at mile 13.

The fan support is always awesome at races.  There was certainly no shortage for this one!

Crossing the finish...

Most Wonderful Man in the World and the Precious Peanuts were on the course five times!  It's been a long road of training and lots of Saturday mornings out of the house.  

I am grateful for the support!!

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I hope everyone had a great weekend and has a great start to their week!

My Best, Whitley