Mile 18 Spit: Thursday.3

Thursday.3

Date: 06/01/06
Time: 7:00pm
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: Third Thursday in a row for this route. Didn't get up early enough to run in the am, so we ran after work. It sprinkled on us off and on, but I remembered my Body Glide, so everything was good.

First run in a new pair of shoes and they feel amazing! I don't know why I wait so long to get new shoes, they feel so good. The shoe manufactures talk about a comfortable ride and it always seems like marketing hooey, but these guys have a nice ride. There is no other way to describe it. The transition from heel to toe just feels good. They did cause a bit of discomfort for about .5 a mile at mile 3 in my left shin and right knee. Probably from that new comfy ride being just different enough from my old broke ride that it irritated my gait. Every thing was good for the lat 2 miles, but I'll keep you posted if I have more issues.

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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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