Saturday, January 30, 2010

IT'S OKAY TO BE FAST

My husband Mark is a Runner.  
He is addicted to running like an alcoholic is to booze, a smoker to cigarettes, 
a drug addict to cocaine... 
Well maybe not that bad, but he gets bitchy if he doesn't get his running in!

He just ran the Chicago Marathon in October 09'.  It marked the half way point to his goal to run all 5 World Major Marathons.

 
2:58:50

2:55:06

 
2:53:11

He really amazed me, he ran his personal best time of 2:53:11!  However, like all the marathon's before this one, he immediately started evaluating his run and how he could improve!

He ran his first marathon in 2007 at the Walt Disney World Marathon and surprised us all by running a 3:18:13.  After that, only missing quality for Boston by 2 minutes, he was on a mission. He followed up with running the Niagra Falls Marathon in that same fall with a time of 2:59:54.   Every runner dreams of breaking the 3 hour mark and he did it. This qualified him to run Boston (3:15:00 was required with a 60 second allowance).

I run too.  I run to the store, I run to the bathroom...

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