Ever since Chicago 6 weeks ago, I seemed to have gained eight pounds. Completely negating the 4 pounds I’d lost during taper. Once I started enjoying running, I had stopped looking at the numbers on the scale (or clothes sizes). I appreciated both as side effects of something I liked doing. But every extra pound counts in running. Every extra pound is extra impact on my joints, every extra pound slows my already slow pace even more. I’m not really…
Love is Signing up for your first marathon in the same year. Training for your first marathons side by side (kind of – Saturday and Sunday). Swapping parenting days on the weekend so both can get their runs in. Not killing each other after exhaustingly long training runs. Buying bags of ice for each other to soak in cold chilly recovery baths. Putting up with one partner talk only about the Marathon, and the other partner talk nothing about the…
(He’s going to be totally mad at me for posting his pictures in public domain, but I’m just so proud of him!) We drove down from Atlanta, and went straight to packet pickup. The traffic into the expo (which was on an island with just ONE road) was a mess! Good thing we left Atlanta at 9am and not at 12noon as we had originally planned! Race Day! I wrote his name on the Shirt and outfitted…
Meeting up with Becca (and her husband Jerry), Kelly and Michaela (for 20 seconds) was the next best part about Savannah weekend!
What more fun than to run 26.2 miles, except you are not actually running it all ! We had 4 teams (that I knew of) from Get Fit who signed up for the relay (4 people with legs of 5.5, 8.4, 5.1, 7.2 – Although the legs didn’t really measure right(!)). It was so much fun, especially waiting in the end to cheer in Edna, one of our yellow peeps who did an amazing first marathon in one of the…
True … but … Satisfaction to me is knowing I gave it my best shot.