Mile 18 Spit: Thursday

Thursday

Date: 05/18/06
Time: 9:00am
Route: My house up to Glisan then down to 139th for a loop over to Burnside. Came home via 172nd and cut across the school yard to avoid Halsey.
Length:5mi (view)
Dog: Yep
Notes: This is a perfect 5 mile loop. Good sidewalks, a nice training hill. We saw Greg in his red truck. He honked and waved and we reciprocated. (Don't always recognize honkers when we are out running, but his old truck was easily identified.)

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At 10:49 AM, May 24, 2006, Johnathan M. Thomas said...: It's strange... I feel like I lose weight just reading this site.

peace.

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I've run 2 marathons. In the first I hit the wall at mile 18. Cramps in my legs forced me to walk for much of the last 8 miles. When I finished, I looked and felt like death. One friend at the finish line commented, "He looks gray". ~ While training for my second marathon, I often thought about mile 18. I despised it. I feared it. I fixated on it. I determined to pass it feeling differently than the first time. As the race neared I planned a small ritual that included spitting on the ground as I passed mile 18. ~ The second marathon was much different. Experience and wisdom gave me the opportunity to edit a scene from my life and improve upon it. As I passed the iconic marker, my vision blurred from emotion and I left my mark ~ mile 18 spit.

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