Last year I started running late in august. This year I wanted to start early and set myself some real goals and train in a discplined fashion. Last year was enough to know that if I push myself I could go the distance but this year is the time to do it!
I started running with this very interesting group of runners on th Montrose harbor. Last weekend was my first run with these people. The organiser asked me how long wud I like to run today? I wish I had an answer :p That day I ended up running about 5miles. I wanted to back it up with another solid 5 on sunday but a blizzard ruined it!
This weekend was the time to push myself. Weather obliged and we did a 8.5 miler on saturday! I was determined to make my net distance over 10 on sunday but weather was going to test me! Thunder storms were almost certain. I mailed the organiser of this run in the mornin to check if she wanted to do it! She was a seasoned runner and she was ready to go!
So I showed up at the skate park, shivering in cold rain wondering if I was crazy! Even if I was crazy I wasn't the only one. There was a skate boarder with his two labz. The dogs were gorgeous! I stretched a little in the skatepark when a fellow runner showed up! I was glad I had company coz this run was goin to be tough! 6 ppl had rsvp'd but only 2 to start...we both wished that we get lucky and the rain goes away and we started our run...on our way another runner joined us and 3 of us trotted along a wild michigan lake!
Our prayers were answered and the storm/rain vanished. We ran about 4.5 and I did make it to a double digit marks this weekend :)
Fortune favors the brave.
The fellow runner told me that she ran all winter and she used to consider herself lucky when it didn't snow..whoever has been in chicago winter knows that is not true! Conditions are not at all easy to run in winter whether its snowing or not!
Shez just a tough runner. But my mark is still the distance and not the weather. I am really not looking forward to a tough winter...I'm just waiting for some real spring!
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