Hey, Don't I Know You?
What does it say that I know every person in this article, which is all about the back of the pack crowd and their different marathon experience? There’s:
- Michael, Irene’s husband;
- John Cross, an octogenarian I’ve welcomed home in many races;
- Chuck, Louise’s old training partner (old as in former, Chuck, not agewise);
- Erin, who I’ve shared a run with and who is part of our core SDTC half marathon training program;
- and Sue, who I just spoke to on the phone the other day.
I hope they and everyone running this Sunday are greeted by cool weather, great music and a spectacular group of spectators. I’ll be thinking of you.
6 comments:
Louise says...MY PEOPLE! I loved the article in today's paper :-) Sad I am not running but oh so proud of those back of the packers who tough it out for hours on end! Rock on runners rock on!!
These are my people too! Shouldn't we get to say we have even more endurance than the fast runners? After all, we're out there for longer!
I just hope I'm as spry and sharp as Mr. Cross is when I get to his age!
I knew the article was coming out today, but I had no clue about his picture being on the front page until I saw someone at the marathon expo who told me! I didn't know it was on the front page since we looked up the article on the internet. Michael thought that was funny. I love that John Cross is in the article.
Let's have lunch, soon!
I wish we had a fun group like your group to run with here in Nor Cal. Consider yourself blessed to have such great runner friends!
You sure you didn't ghost write it? Very cool article. I totally get that BOP mentality. Without it I don't think I'd be getting out there at all.
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