Wow! It has been a really long time...

I guess at some point I stopped feeling like a runner, then I started feeling it again, but life gets in the way and sometimes we just don't blog. The summer series thing worked out. I came in number 2. Since I last posted I have been injured, recovered, restarted and run two of the most difficult races I could possibly imagine...one of them twice! I hit a huge PR, I hit a huge low, I thought I might quit for good. I didn't. I have run two half marathons- I placed 1st in my age group at one-and two 15 milers. I came in first overall (even ahead of the men) with a really crappy time at a race in my hometown (no one there runs). I watched my baby get a PR himself at the Bear Hole again this year with a time of 9:35!!! My middle son has started cross country and now can do a 5K faster than my wildest dreams. I have made the best friends along the way.

So now I am blogging again- why, you might ask??? To get myself through to a marathon and beyond. I need to think. I need to write. I need to remember the progress that I have made. I need to ramble in a place where no one can hear me. :)

So onward and onward- race plan. My next race is a 5K in Oakland Maryland on the 9th. I ran 16 miles on Saturday, 3.1 yesterday and need to get out again tomorrow. Perhaps some speedwork is in order. I don't understand much of my life right now, only that I think I am in a really bad place and maybe running will cure that. Or kill me. More later.