It’s about time that I write something. I’ve just been having a mental block as far as writing goes. I can always write little snippets of stuff, but it doesn’t ever seem to amount to anything. I guess I’m just not all that exciting!
I’ve started to ramp up my training a bit, and I even joined up with a small group of people for runs twice a week This group is put together by a local athletic club called Qi (pronounced “Chee”), and they run on Tuesday and Thursday mornings around a local park here in Denver called City Park. The best thing is that it’s free, and the next best thing is that they are mostly at my speed, which right now is slow. Not to say that they are slow, I think they just don’t want me to lag very far back and then lose interest.
Then on Saturday’s for my long runs, I run with a group from the local running store, Runners Roost. They are the greatest people and the best part is they have food and drinks for you afterwards! One time they even had someone there making pancakes. They were awesome. We run in Parker and Aurora, CO, and a lot of times we go into the Cherry Creek Park, which makes for some nice trail running, when it’s not too wet and muddy. After I ran with them yesterday, I needed to buy some shoes, and they found a pair that I usually run with, the Mizuno Wave Alchemy, that were “last seasons model”, and they gave them to me for half price! Perfect!. So of course I had to buy some socks and some gels because I felt guilty.
This past week I ran 32 miles, which is the longest I have run in a week since last year! I think my schedule has me running more this week, and then I go back down a bit for some recovery. I am definitely looking forward to that!
I was diagnosed with MS about 6 years ago and I am one of the lucky ones. I don't have too many problems associated with it, and the disease has actually slowed down. I took up running 4 years ago just to see if I could do it. So far I've run 4 marathons in 2 years and 12 half marathons.