I cannot get over that Mould show. It is very likely a top 3 (2? 1?) show of my life thanks to the context of our extremely late arrival and his victorious joy at the end.
Phil, Knowing that what I have done as a runner has also inspired others to do it for fitness and fun is more important to me, "in the long run", than having done all those marathons. Thanks for the mention. I like your goal of a 5K in every county. The thing about starting when I was nearing fifty is that I didn't start traveling out of the immediate region until our youngest child was a junior or senior in high school. The thing about running races is that you meet a lot of people with similar interests in running. I made dozens of friends through that. I also eventually found the local running club and a couple years later I became the editor of its newsletter. I believe meeting people through running brought me out of my shell, as I am temperamentally a loner. All of that occurred before and, IMO, was a necessary precursor to my participation in GPUS. Running with others, especially thru organized track sessions will definitely make you faster. There a saying in running about having a seven-year window of improvement once you can commit to the workouts. So I do believe you could get faster again and maybe more so than you were before. One 5K I recommend is the Bastille Day 5K right in Chicago. I did it the first evening of our Annual Meeting/PNC in 2008. It was a rainy day, but the rain had let up when I started jogging the couple miles from our hotel to the race. Just after I finished the race, the skies opened up. I left my bag with the race shirt and just started jogging back to the hotel. So I didn't stick around to hear the results. I looked them up when I got back to Delaware. I was stunned. In Delaware I always had a difficult time placing in my age-group because there were a good number of older male runners. So I had run in Chicago with several thousand in the race and I had won the 60-69 age-group with a 24:52 (at age 63). I still wonder where were all the older male runners. BTW, I have spent the last year and a half getting out almost every day, but it's now mostly walking with some running thrown in. The only thing that might motivate me to get more into running again would be when I hit 80 in a few years because all of the state age-group records are there to be broken. Remember, there have been very few men in Delaware who ever ran competitively so it's a relatively low bar, but I know runners a bit younger who would probably break whatever I can do some years from now.
I cannot get over that Mould show. It is very likely a top 3 (2? 1?) show of my life thanks to the context of our extremely late arrival and his victorious joy at the end.
Phil, Knowing that what I have done as a runner has also inspired others to do it for fitness and fun is more important to me, "in the long run", than having done all those marathons. Thanks for the mention. I like your goal of a 5K in every county. The thing about starting when I was nearing fifty is that I didn't start traveling out of the immediate region until our youngest child was a junior or senior in high school. The thing about running races is that you meet a lot of people with similar interests in running. I made dozens of friends through that. I also eventually found the local running club and a couple years later I became the editor of its newsletter. I believe meeting people through running brought me out of my shell, as I am temperamentally a loner. All of that occurred before and, IMO, was a necessary precursor to my participation in GPUS. Running with others, especially thru organized track sessions will definitely make you faster. There a saying in running about having a seven-year window of improvement once you can commit to the workouts. So I do believe you could get faster again and maybe more so than you were before. One 5K I recommend is the Bastille Day 5K right in Chicago. I did it the first evening of our Annual Meeting/PNC in 2008. It was a rainy day, but the rain had let up when I started jogging the couple miles from our hotel to the race. Just after I finished the race, the skies opened up. I left my bag with the race shirt and just started jogging back to the hotel. So I didn't stick around to hear the results. I looked them up when I got back to Delaware. I was stunned. In Delaware I always had a difficult time placing in my age-group because there were a good number of older male runners. So I had run in Chicago with several thousand in the race and I had won the 60-69 age-group with a 24:52 (at age 63). I still wonder where were all the older male runners. BTW, I have spent the last year and a half getting out almost every day, but it's now mostly walking with some running thrown in. The only thing that might motivate me to get more into running again would be when I hit 80 in a few years because all of the state age-group records are there to be broken. Remember, there have been very few men in Delaware who ever ran competitively so it's a relatively low bar, but I know runners a bit younger who would probably break whatever I can do some years from now.
Come down to El Paso IL in November for the Furrow Euro! It is the hardest but most fun 3mi ever. Plus there is soup.