Longest Run In My Entire Life!

This morning, I met the rest of the charity runners at Revolution Fitness at 8am. Even though, I jumped in bed at 9:50pm last night and had a full night sleep, I still felt tired. After an inspiring speech from Coach Rick, my mood suddenly changed and I woke up for a wonderful 16 mile morning run. Everytime Coach Rick talks to us, he leaves us with a message and an inspiring story. I always on the verge of tears, but hold back because I'm mostly among strangers. The stories are about running for a purpose, running for his late mother, or how great it's going to feeel when we cross the finish line. Today, another woman did actually start to cry. Rick told us about his 8 year old son and how to age 3, he rode in the Children's Pan Mass Challenge. A tough 12 mile bike race! I don't think I could ride a bike at age 3 and definitely didn't have the leg power to move for 12 miles. His son has attended training runs every week with his dad since he was a week old. Not only are we helping raise money for charities, we're setting examples for others. It's a very inspiring, lifting experience. It gives me goosebumps. Each run is a victory!

Charity Runners
Coach Rick is on the right and Linda is on the Left.

Today, I ran with Linda York. She's a member of the GFRC and Team GO Far as well. We both shortened the run and only ran 16 miles. To put the 16 miles into perspective, we ran to the Museum of Science down the Cambridge side of the river to the New Balance building or the North Beacon Bridge and back! Linda ran Boston last year so I posed the question to her, "When you received your Boston Marathon medal, did you wear it for a week straight?" She laughed, and told me all about the celebration after the marathon. I am going to wear my medal for a week straight, maybe even 2 weeks. I might even sleep with it on. That feeling got me through a few miles of running.

Check out our distance and speed. We increased the pace as we increased the miles! The windy Charles River head wind might be the reason.


Woo! I can't wait to run 18 miles next weekend. And, this upcoming week is going to be a blast. I have a hill run and massage scheduled with Stomp, fundraiser and charity swag party on Thursday night. holller!