Sarah Conard

Projects: St. Louis Marathon: The Most Pleasant Exhaustion

Portraits from the finish line of the Go! St. Louis Marathon on April 19, 2009

"So much did the race take out of me. But it was the most pleasant exhaustion I have ever known"

-Emil Zatopek after winning the gold medal in the 1952 Helsinki Summer Olympics Marathon

Jaclyn Fedele, 26, of St. Louis, Mo.
  
Charlie Shoen, 22, of St. Charles, Mo.
  
Pedro Rosa, 59, of Chicago, Il..
     
  
Whitney Conner, 31, and Kris Clapper, 28, of Grand Rapids, Mi,
   
Serge Anato, 28, of Glen Carbon Il,
   
Marco Roveda, 37, of St. Louis, Mo.
     
  
Sara Schlueter Weidner, 37, of Prairie Village, Ks.
   
Megan Brown, 29, of Kansas City, Mo. and Mike Youngs, 45, of Bay City, Mi,
  
Curtis Sparrow, 55, of Converse, Tx.
     
  
Jill Droege, 49, of Richmond Heights, Mo.
   
Hazelina Johnson, 38, of Ferguson, Mo.
  
Angela Sabo, 37, left, of Carlyle, Il. and Sharon Schmitz, 46, of Pocahontas, Il.
     
  
Shawn Goertz, 36, of Columbia, Mo.
   
Gene Bocis, 39, of Chesterfield. Mo., and his children, Jackson, left, 6, and Samantha, 4.
   
Rachel Echelbarger, 20, of Cedar Falls, Ia.
     
  
Jackie Pirtle-Hall, 26, of St. Charles, Mo.
  
David Rikke, 56, of Indianapolis, In.
   
William Choate, 53, of Farmington, Mo.