hard day in a silver lining

4:30 am the alarm goes off. snooze, 4:40 snooze. Finally at 4:50 we get up get ready and out the door. Holly, Lou Dawg and I in the car and on our way to NH to run a relay race around some lake. I really had no idea were it was but after 2 hrs and some wrong turns we end up at start 30 min before the gun went off. I am running the third leg of the race and still had 3 hours before I had to run. Off for some sramble and to watch some of the runner. Warm up went well. 30 mins later I'm off to run. First mile is a 11% grade, ran it no porb, 3 and half more of some big rollers and I'm feeling great. My cardio is doing great, my knee is holding out and bamm. My legs give out, 2 months of not running and swimming almost everyday dose not make for happy legs after five miles of steep hils and descents. I still have 4 miles of hills to got and nothing in my legs. The strange thing the rest of me feels fine, just my legs. The last four mile were hard run stop run, at the end I had this girl tell me not to give up and come with her. she pushed me when I did not want to go, but I went. She started to pull away and I picked it up. I passed her and told her it is my turn to pull, all the way to the finish. Sore as hell but I'm better for it. I know to run you need to run. I need to heal and then I am running.

The silver lining I got to spend the whole day with Holly and Lou. We also made a new friend Mo.

It was great seeing Holly and dawg on the side of the road cheering. Made me real happy, Can't wait to see Holly and Emil there next year hold signs, sitting in their fold up chairs.

Love you Holly.

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