"Race" Report

As I’ve mentioned in a previous post…Facebook has been killing my blog. I love Facebook and use it daily. It’s become a great tool for doing the running clubs newsletter as it makes it easy to keep up with who is running where, and can even gather pictures from some of these events.

What I’ve done in the process is not allow myself any time to keep my blog going. My new plan is to set aside at least 1-day a week to keep the blog going. My last real post was December 2009. Wow does time fly.

Not a lot has changed since then. I’m still very active in The Woodlands Running Club, still volunteer quite a bit, coach runners, and have false start after false start with my own training.

Something happened a couple months ago. I can’t tell you why it happened…it just did. I was at my local track in Spring and after a typical poor workout (poor in the sense that I used to jog laps at a 7:00 pace, and run mile repeats under 6:00) I was at peace with my walk/slow jog effort. I didn’t beat myself up, (typically followed by 2-3 weeks of no activity). I was glad to be alive, to be at the track, and working out…at whatever pace.

The last few months have been pretty busy but I’ve managed to find the time 2-3 times per week to make my way to the track and get in a few miles, still mostly walking with an occasional 100-200 yard jog. It’s coming along slow….but it’s coming along and that’s more than it’s been.

All this has led up to my first “race” finish in a little over three years. Saturday, June 18th Adrienne Langelier, Jon Walk and I travelled to Brewton, Alabama to support a fundraiser for the W.S.Neal High School Track Team. You can read about the great work Rebecca Massie and Adrienne combined for here and here.

Rebecca could have used a sundial to time me. I didn’t wear a watch, didn’t look at the finish clock. I walked probably 90% of the 5K (9-hours in a back seat of a midsize car is hell on the legs) and didn’t care. I had fun, I have a finish, and I have something other than a DNS to build on.


Life is good!