I am officially a marathoner!
It was the most grueling, exciting, painful, exhilarating, and amazing experience of my life. I am also SUPER sore! 
And hungry!
I finished in 4:53, holding Lauren’s hand. Honestly, my time wasn’t important (although I’m proud of our 11:00-ish/average). This race was about finishing strong and having fun – together!
Full recap coming later. The kitchen is coming my name!
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That is awesome, Caitlin! You are such an inspiration. I can’t wait for the full recap.
Yay congrats! I woke up this morning thinking about all of you marathoners.
It has been so neat and inspiring to read about your training for this marathon. I am so happy for you and you’ve inspired me to run a marathon in the next year. But first, I’m going to start with a 5K on March 27th. ;0) Thanks for the inspiration! You’re awesome!
Amazing! Congratulations. Can’t wait for the full deets!
Way to go!!!! I can’t wait to read more about your experience! Congratulations. (:
Congrats! Looking forward to the recap!
You are amazing and sooo inspiring!!!
WELL DONE!! You are INSPIRATIONAL! You must be over the moon
I can’t wait to do one myself and join your elite club 
And wow, how fab you crossed the line with your best friend, that’s awesome! Can’t wait for the recap. Eat lots and have fun lol you deserve it!
Congratulations!!!
That is so cool. So inspiring. Your knees never gave up. WOOT!
congrats!!! you are awesome.
hope the experience was at least mostly fun!
Congrats Caitlin! I am so proud of you!!!
Congratulations! That is so awesome!
Congrats Caitlin! So amazing!
Congrats Caitlin!! So amazing!!!
CONGRATS! Cant wait for the recap!!
Congrats Caitlin!! You’re a star
Now go eat!!!
Yay you did it!!! So happy for you
Congrats! I can’t wait to read your recap!
way to go Caitlin!! Go Team!
Congratulations! Now eat eat and eat some more! haha
Good for you! So inspiring! Looking forward to the recap!
yay yay yay! CONGRATS!!
So awesome. Can’t wait to read your full recap.
Congrats, Caitlin! I am very happy for you!!
Congratulations, what an amazing accomplishment!!! I can’t wait to run my first marathon! What an amazin sense of accomplishment you must feel!!!
Congrats! Enjoy the amazing post marathon buzz!
hooray!!!
It’s been amazing reading your progress over the past several months, and I can’t even imagine how proud you must be. CELEBRATION, YO!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!
wahooooooooooo you are very inspiring
one day my goal is to run a marathon as well. Great job!!!!!!!!!!!
CONGRATS, girl!! You rock and are such an inspiration!!!
Congrats!! And welcome to the club.
Great job and congratulations!
Caitlin, I am SO proud of you! We all knew you could and would do this!
Congrats! Eat up, you have an exciting recap to write!
Congratulations! You did an amazing thing!
Way to go! Congrats!
congrats!!! my sister and i ran our first marathon together and finished holding hands as well…such an amazing experience!
Amazing! Congrats! What an incredible achievement!
So awesome! Congrats!
WOOOHOOO! That’s awesome!! CONGRATULATIONS!!
Congratulations, Caitlin! What an awesome accomplishment!
Congratulations!!!
YAY!!!! CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
You are an inspiration lady!!!
Congrats Caitlin, you are amazing lady! I can’t wait to read your recap, get some rest and refuel.
CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU ROCK GIRL!!!!!!! And to finish how you started, with Lauren…how awesome. What an amazing experience! Congratulations! Now go stuff your face and enjoy the most wonderful runner’s high E-V-E-R! Can’t wait for the recap!!
Proud of you!!
YAYYY congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was anxiously waiting to hear how you did all morning. You rock, and have fun pigging out lol!
Way to Go!!! That’s got to be an awesome feeling – Now go find the ice packs!!!
congrats!!! your a huge inspiration to me, and everyone, and seeing you finish makes me really excited for my first marathon in may!!
CONGRATULATIONS! You rock!
A HUGE congratulations to you Caitlin!
YOU DID IT!!!!!
Whooo hooo! Can’t wait to read your recap
Congrats!!!! Way to go!!!!I am very happy for you.
Congratulations!! You are such an inspiration!
I’m so happy for you!
Well done!
<3
Congratulations!!! Definitely something to be proud of! ENjoy it
CONGRATS Caitlin!!! Can’t wait to read the recap!
Congrats!!!
Congrats! And, I’m uber impressed that you are already able to blog! I think at this point post marathon, I was laying on the floor of my hotel room not moving.
Can’t wait to read the recap!
So fun to be there to cheer you on!! I’m glad I got to seey ou finish your first marathon ever! Epic!
You’re amazing!
yum, yum! eat lots!
CONGRATS!!! It’s been great to read about your moments leading up to now. You should be SO proud of yourself!!! I can’t wait to read the recap!
Congrats, Caitlin! What an amazing accomplishment! I can’t wait to read the full recap – eat up and rest up!!! You deserve it.
To echo everyone else, CONGRATS!! You have (unknowingly) provided so much inspiration for me over the past year. Now I’ve already made a race calendar for the 2010 season and have gotten my friend to read your blog too! You are incredible! Go eat, eat, eat! And maybe sleep as well!
Major congratulations to you and Lauren! Can’t wait for the full recap!
Congratulations!!!! Now go get something to eat and rest!
Amazing! Congratulations on your proud, happy day!!
Congratulations! What an amazing accomplishment!
Congrats! Go eat your face off
CONGRATS!!!
Congrats!! That is awesome!
AHHH I’ve been waiting for this post. Congrats Caitlin. Absolutely amazing. Go enjoy a FEAST!!!
Congrats! I can’t wait to hear more
CONGRATULATIONS! I a so proud of you! I couldn’t stop thinking about the marathon and all the amazing bloggers all week long!
You look sooo hot in your outfit
hehe. YAYYYY! You kick ass.
Wow! Congrats!!!
YOU’RE AMAZING!!!! Congrats, Caitlin!
Ahhhh congrats!! Cannot wait to read the recap
Enjoy your post-glow….amazing!
YOU ROCK!!! Congrats, congrats, congrats!!!
Congrats! That is soooo awesome
Congratulations marathoner Caitlin! You’re amazing!
YAY you rock!!! Congrats on completing the marathon
I look forward to the recap!!
You are awesome! I had no doubts
Congratulations on such a huge accomplishment.
Congratulations! You are amazing!
Congrats!!! Can’t wait to hear all about it!!
Jenna
This gave me goosebumps! Congrats girl!
HOOOOOOORAY! congrats caitlin!!! what an unbelievable accomplishment!
YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are amazing. Congrats and eat up!
Congratulations sweetie!!! I know this race meant so much to you, and we are all so proud of you!
EEEEEEEEEE! You should be so proud of yourself for completing the marathon! Yea! I can’t wait to read about your experience
CONGRATS!
Amazing!!! Congrats on a strong finish and having a great time doing it!
CONGRATS
Woohoo! Way to go!
YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you are wonderful . . . I’ve been thinking about you guys all morning! Congratulations Caitlin
Congrats! That’s amazing- all your hard work paid off and you have accomplished so much!
Congrats Caitlin!! I was thinking about you all morning
What an accomplishment, you should feel SO proud! xoxo
Congrats Caitlin on your first marathon. I’m warning you they are addicting.
Caitlin, you are AMAZING! Congratulations on your marathon finish. You should be very proud of yourself!!!
CONGRATULATIONS!! What an amazing accomplishment. You should feel very proud of yourself!
Thats awesome! I can’t wait for the full recap. I’ve been thinking about you guys all morning!
Congratulations! That is amazing!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!
Congrats! You’re awesome!
CONGRATS !!! that’s amazing, what an amazing feeling that must be. I can’t wait to read your full recap.
Hopefully one day, maybe even next year I will be running my first half Marathon.
That’s so amazing! You did a MARATHON! That’s so great! Congratulations!!
Congratulations!! You’ll never forget your first!!
Eeee!!! I don’t even think a “congrats” will cover it!! I am SO PROUD of you!! I remember back in the day you would blog about how you would never be a marathoner but would still run anyways. AS IF! You rocked it!!!
Amazing job! Finishing your first marathon is a feeling that can’t be beat! Thank you for sharing your journey across the finish line. I look forward to reading your race re-cap.
Congrats!! Can’t for your recap. Enjoy that runner’s high – I remember it being of of the best feelings in the world and likely why I want to run another!!
Congratulations! The feeling of completing a marathon is quite an amazing sensation! Rest up, fuel up, put your feet up and we’ll all be watching for your recap!
You’re amazing! Wonderful job! Aloha:-)
Congrats Caitlin! I’m on business travel in Hawaii and have been so excited to checkin and see how it went. Enjoy this moment!
Congratulations Caitlin! So glad you two were able to finish together. Enjoy your food (and hopefully a beer or two) and your rest and I can’t wait to read the recap.
Congrats! So happy for you
congrats girly!
Can’t wait to read about it! Congratulations!
Congrats Caitlin!! Go rest up and EAT!!
CONGRATS!!!!
CONGRATULATIONS! What a great accomplishment! First thing I did this morning was search you on the Disney World Marathon site to see how you were doing! You’ve totally kept me motivated to continue my marathon training. congrats again
Congratulations!! You should be so proud of yourself! I don’t even know how you managed to run in this cold.. let alone for 26 miles
Great job!
Congratulations! I’ve been reading your blog for a while and want to congratulate you on getting through training and completing your marathon! So exciting! Looking forward to the whole recap!
Yay! Congratulations!
I can’t wait for the recap – congratulations, ride the high as long as you can… this is an amazing accomplishment!
A HUGE congratulations to you Miss Caitlin! You are an extraordinary woman who challenges herself and others to be better people. Woo-hoo!!!
Congratulations!!!! I can’t wait to hear more!
YAY!!!! WAY TO GO!!!!
Yay!!!! Congrats girl! you are soooo amazing!
Amazing! Congratulations!!!!!
Congrats!! I have tears in my eyes for you – proud & happy tears, of course!
take a nap girl you deserve it! Good job!
Congrats Cailtlin. I am running my first 1/2 in May and you give me hope that you can do anything you set your mind to. So proud of you!
Congrats!!! Great job!
Congrats, Caitlin! I look forward to the full race recap later!
Congratulations to you both!! Awesome!!
Congratulations! I can’t wait to read your recap!
WOW! Congrats, that is a great time, too! I am hoping to run my first half marathon next fall, cannot even BEGIN to fathom a full!! Awesome!
Congratulations!!!!
Wow, congrats! Awesome job — you’re one of very few people in the world that can say you completed a marathon! The body is a wonderful machine
Connnnngratulations!!!!
Can’t wait for the recap! Well done, you did so well!
Congrats marathoner!
HUGE congrats on an amazing accomplishment!!!
Congratulations! What a dream come true!
CONGRATS!! <3
Congrats! That is an amazing accomplishment!! Can’t wait to hear all about it!
Congrats! So happy for you!
What an accomplishment!! Congratulations! All of your hard work has definitely paid off! Cannot wait for the full recap!
Congratulations!!!!!
congratulations!! enjoy it and eat as much as you want!!!
congrats!!! You are such an inspiration!!!
Congratulations! Looking forward to reading your recap!
CONGRATS!!!
Congratulations!!! You are such an inspiration!!
CONGRATS!!! How exciting!!! I can’t wait to hear all about it!!
Way to go! Seeing all of you cross the finish line gives me hope for the Princess Half Marathon in March.
Well done Caitlin! Have been checking all day to see how you got on! You are very inspirational – hopefully 2010 will be the year when I find my own healthy tipping point!
So happy for you
Make the ‘high’ last all day, it’s the greatest feeling. Hope you fueled up on good grub and enjoy the day!!
Congratulations!!!!
So proud of you – congrats!!!
Congrats on finishing and in such a great time! Great job!
Woo Hoo! Welcome to the marathoners club! An absolutely outstanding accomplishment! Can’t wait to see what you’ll do next!
Congratulations!
Congratulations, you marathoner, you!
I’m an Orlando resident myself and have been thinking about you and the rest of the marathon crew today, with these cold temps and all. You totally rock and are such an inspiration. I’m beginning week 8 of the C2-5K training program tomorrow and am running my first 5k (at Mead Garden) in February. Thanks for the motivation! Now get some good rest and have that hubby of yours spoil you for all your hard work. 
You are one amazing girl
Congratulations – I can’t wait to read all about the race!
Congrats!!!
What a wonderful accomplishment, Caitlin! I am so happy for you– you are awesome
Looking forward to the full recap…
congratulations! your face in the picture says it all
such an amazing accomplishment; I’m so proud of/for you!
Congratulations Caitlin! I can only try to imagine the pride (and pain) you felt crossing that finish line! Hopefully, more pride than pain. I can’t wait to hear the breakdown of how the race went for you!
[...] I can’t think of a better way to start my first *real* post than by congratulating these four amazing women for finishing the Disney Marathon over in Florida. I don’t ‘know’ [...]
Way to go Caitlin and Lauren!! You two did wonderful!! It was so fun tracking you
REST UP!
It’s strange that I don’t even really know you, but I woke up thinking about you and the race today and have been looking forward to hearing you say “I DID IT”! Congrats! Now you breathe a sigh of relief….and maybe a few moans
Amazing. Simply amazing. Well done, congrats, and if I could use every superlative in the dictionary to describe you I would.
Your strength, determination and stoical attitude towards injury mean that you are, and continue to be, a brilliant role model to each and every woman in the world.
Stunning.
Congrats Caitlin!! You are so inspiring!
And apologies for the link in my comment name being incorrect! Honestly…you can run a marathon and I can’t even type correctly
So excited!!!! I’ve been dying for recaps all day! I am just so proud!
CONGRATULATIONS!!
So amazing. Congratulations; you should be so proud.
You’re. A. Rockstar. Way to go!!!
Awesome job, Caitlin! I’m so glad it went well! I can’t wait to hear the real recap!
THANK YOU EVERYONE!
Congratulations!!!!
WAY TO GO!!! CONGRATS!!!! Looking forward to the recap!!
Hurrah! Well done Caitlin, can’t wait for the full recap!
I’ve been wondering all day how you did! You rock!!
Like the hundreds of people above me have already said – CONGRATS! That is a feat I can’t even imagine accomplishing, you are truly inspiring!
Congratulations! Yippee! I can’t wait to read all about it.
congrats Caitlin! =)
You are awesome Caitlin well done!!
Many congrats! As someone with a relative who died from leukemia and someone who contributed to your fundraising efforts, I am especially proud of you!
Congrats! I am so proud of you! You trained hard and for a good cause, and did something amazing today. Awesome job!
I am so proud and happy for you! What an accomplishment. I hope you give yourself A LOT OF LOVE for completing your first marathon. Way to go sista!
CONGRATULATIONS!! It is such an amazing feeling to complete a marathon. You should be SO proud of yourself! Can’t wait to read all about it!
Congrats! You earned it!
congratulations! that’s an awesome time, i can’t wait to hear the recap!
Congratulations!
Congratulations Caitlin!
Congratulations! Can’t wait to read the recap.
Congratulations! You never have another first marathon. Be proud!
CAITLIN!!!!! YOU DID IT! congrats . . . can’t wait to hear more! YAYYYYYY go celebrate!
Congrats! You’re awesome!
Congratulations! Finished and still standing!
Congrats! I know you were so excited to be a part of the marathon “club” and now you are! When’s #2? Oh…we’ll ask you in a week or so…:) There’s always a #2 because you will want to run one for time also! Congrats again…can’t wait to read all about it.
Great job girl! Isn’t it an amazing feeling?!?!?! Enjoy that after glow, you earned it!!! I looked for you but didn’t see you… if you saw a crazy redhead jumping around with motivational posters between mile 25 & mile 26 with cowbell that was me!!
Congratulations Caitlin!!!!
Can’t wait to read the full recap!! You are so right, you deserve to be so incredibly proud of yourself. You achieved something that most people would never even DREAM of accomplishing.
I knew you could do it
WELL DONE!!
xoxo
I WANT THE FULL RECAP! I DON’T CARE HOW TIRED YOU ARE! (J/K!) I’m soooooo proud of you!!!!
Congrats Caitlin! I knew you would love it. That’s wonderful. and 4:53 is a time you can be proud of (faster than my marathon time at least). Good job. You earned everything you can eat tonight.
in fact, you will want to eat amazing amounts of food for the next week or so. that is normal. feast up.
Woot woot!!!! Amazing, can’t wait to read the recap (but rest, eat, and BASK IN IT first!)
Congratulations Caitlin! You are such an inspiration.
Absolutely amazing. And even more amazing that you did it for such a great cause and raised so much money. Go YOU! Congrats. Now, eat your face off
Congrats, that’s so exciting!
Yay you did it! so proud of you Girl!!!! such an inspiration…
Omg! You ran it! I’m so happy for you! I rarely comment, but I felt now was a perfect time to start! Congrats!
[...] I’d like to congratulate Caitlin on completing her first marathon! Way to go, girl! I’m sure its the first of [...]
Awesome! Can’t wait to hear the race report! I’ve been reading your blog for about 4mos, and you’ve inspired me to start my own. This is my first comment ever! Again, great job! You’re such an inspirational young woman!!!
Congratulation Caitlin- I enjoy reading your blog and thought I would let you know that I am very inspired by you and all that you do!
Awesome, Caitlin, congrats!! We knew you could do it! Enjoy your great accomplishment!
Congratulations!!
So proud of you! Welcome to the club. Looking forward to hearing about it. Love it, hate it, like it and the future plans???????
CONGRATULATIONS, Caitlin! I love that photo of you…truly can’t wait for the recap!
Good for you! I’m so proud of you! I got so emotional
reading that you finished, I feel like I was there too. That’s thanks to your amazing blog. Cogratulations and thanks for all you do.
Congrats!! You are awesome!!!!
CONGRATS CAITLIN! I can’t wait to read your recap!
Congrats! Just awesome.
Kick A$$!!! I am so motivated by this post! I love that you saw an Operation Beautiful Poster!! It’s awesome the you were able to run a marathon with the person who inspired you start your running journey.
Congratulations Caitlin!!!!!!! You are a superstar!!!!!!
YAYYYYY, congrats!
Congratulations darling…you have inspired me (and others) in more ways than you can imagine….
CONGRATULATIONS!
WOWOWOW!!! Congratulations! I’m so glad it was a good experience!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Thank you so much for doing this! A friend of mine is suffering from leukemia right now for the 2nd (!) time and she is only 24. You are an inspiration!