I have made a brief attempt at an outdoor track season. One meet and done. In fairness, because I have too many other awesome plans I am not able to make the rest of the scheduled meets. Also, because the first race went like this (seriously, how white am I?):
This is the second 200. This is the homestretch after I dropped my transmission on the previous curve. See, I forgot that I am no longer a sub 60 seconds 400 m runner. I decided that when the woman on the inside lane caught me in the first 50 m, I would stay with her. Well, we went through the 200 at 28 seconds. Uh, oh. That right now is what I could run for just 200 m. I tried to keep going and my body shut down and I ran a new personal worst. However, season best through 200 m and.....I beat the other Masters runner! Unfortunately, she wasn't in my heat. I was checking the results and found that I had beat her and said out loud "Yay not last!". The dude checking his results laughed and gave me a high five. See people understand, sometimes you just want to make sure your not last! Or as we call it DFL (Dead Expletive Last).
Later, while cooling down ran into the Masters runner. She said "Hey, you missed all of last year, what was going on?".
Me "Oh, cancer"
"Wow. Chemo and everything?"
"Yes, but everything is good now"
"Great to have you back. There is a story in there. I feel like I shouldn't complain about my knee surgery"
My body does not enjoy running right now. I feel like my sneakers were gifts from Tony Soprano (made from cement) and my IT bands I swear are getting shorter. My knees are crunchy when I walk up stairs which sounds worse than it feels. But, I am still running. Nothing hurts I am just super super tight. Lack of flexibility and legs feeling like trash is not new, but amped up another notch since post cancer. Hmm....can I blame this on tamoxifen?
Well rebuilding and getting ready to run the Lahey 5K are the new focus. I'll try again next year. I may be slow but it was still fun to be out there.
Did you Russian Jig it up?
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