Today I am in Chicago. I just got home from running the Shamrock Shuffle 8K and guess what? PR!!! Finish time by my watch was 49:19. Now to put into perspective what a big deal this is, my time last year was 53:09 and my previous PR was 51:53, set in 2005. I bested last year's time by ALMOST 4 MINUTES. So this is a big deal, indeed, and I'm actually a little emotional about it. Running gives me an inner (and outer) strength that I didn't have 5 years ago....I have done this on my own, for myself, with no one telling me I can't or that I won't succeed. You know, it's so easy to look back on times when you wish you had been stronger and think about how different life could have been if you had only felt this way then. But I have to believe that I am in this moment because of the things that I have experienced and that part of the reason it means so much and that I have tears of joy running down my face right now is that metamorphosis.
It's because of where I have come from that I can truly appreciate where I am.
UPDATE: official time was 49:18.
http://results.active.com/pages/oneResult.jsp?pID=35132307&rsID=60459
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