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Running the 2016 Boston Marathon for Children's Hospital
rectumdamnnearkilledem
Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to
remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.
~ Sarah Kay
stimulating conversation giving way to mind-numbing race stories ("and then I put the other foot in front")
E.J.Greater Lowell Road RunnersCry havoc and let slip the dawgs of war!May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be always at your back, may the sun shine warm upon your SPF30, may the rains fall soft upon your sweat-wicking hat, and until you hit the finish line may The Flying Spaghetti Monster hold you in the hollow of His Noodly Appendage.
My sport's your sport's punishment
2012 goals
100 Km month 150 K month 200K month
5K run 10K run 20K run 30K run
sub 30 min 5K sub 55min 10K
All business
"If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason." J. Handy
Runners run
Why is it sideways?
Emailed this to my wife with the subject, I'm not as bad as this woman's husband, am I? Her response: Your getting there. It wouldn't be so bad if our kids were not so young and needy. But I take the good with the bad.
Michelle
It's been a painful process but my husband is slowly accepting my running and I'm slowly accepting his lack of respect for it. At the end of the day we still go to bed just as in love as the day before.
Ouch.
I tell her a pair of running shoes is cheaper than a coronary.