Ok, I know I suck because I haven’t written in like forever. For some reason, I don’t feel creative anymore, and it is tough to get motivated to write more that a couple of sentences. I’ll try harder though.
I ran the Platte River Half Marathon last month, just 3 weeks after my marathon. I was recovered from the marathon, but not close to being trained for the half. I ended up at 1:56:07, which wasn’t all that bad. I did take a few walk breaks because my knee started hurting. I was 15th out of 43 in my age group, and if I was a chick, I would have come in 2nd in my age group!
My next run was the Cherry Creek Sneak, which I had previously vowed never to run because there are sooooo many people. I mainly ran it because it was promoted by Runners Roost, of which I am on the race team for. There is a 1 mile run, a 5K run, and a 5 mile run. I did the 5 miler. Leading up to this race was the fact that I had been sick again. Diane thinks I have allergies,of which I have never had before. I believe she is correct! When I got to the race, I hooked up with other Runners Roost race team members, and we decided to take off for a “warm up run”. Yeah right. Their warm up pace was faster than my race pace! After a little while, I faked the fact that I had to tie my shoes, so they took off without me. Thank goodness! So I lined up with the many other million runners at the start, shoulder to shoulder. My mistake here was I was about in the middle of the pack, and when we started, it was like an episode of the Keystone cops. Everybody was running every which way and it was hard to maneuver around. I weaved in and out for about a mile and a half, and I was exhausted. I was running at the pace I wanted to be at the start, but all the bobbing and weaving left me with no energy. The last 3 miles were not pretty! I ended up at 42:35, which was 26th out of 103 in my age group, but it was 3 minutes slower than I should have been. Oh well.
Next weekend my son Jason is getting married in North Carolina. This makes it all 3 kids that are married now. My daughter Kari is expecting her first child in August, and she already knows it’s a girl. Micheal has his 1 year anniversary this month. It seems like yesterday they were all just kids themselves playing football in the front yard. Time surely does fly.
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 5 marathons in 3 years and 12 half marathons.