Saturday, November 7, 2009

Dowd Half Marathon

I must be crazy.  Tuesday, I mentioned to Kathryn that I was thinking about running a half marathon over the weekend.  Now, the crazy part comes in here: the last time I ran “distance” was in September for the Blue Ridge Relay.  And, the longest leg of that run was 5.9 miles!  I haven’t been running much at all on a regular basis since then.  I’m not sure why I wanted to do it — guess to just see if I COULD do it.  And it turns out, I did it.  My time was fairly slow for me, but at least I ran over the finish line. That’s something!  It also made me realize that I am not anxious to do a marathon.  I guess it would be different if I actually would have trained for this race!  Anyway, I can still run.   I’m always amazed by muscle memory.  Just like I’m surprised every time I get back in the pool after months and realize, “hey! I can still swim.”  Silly me!

 

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