Almost 17 months post-op...

Feb 19, 2010

I can't sleep....it's 3:15 in the morning and I want to go running.  Is it bad that this is the SECOND Saturday in a row that I'm up at this ridiculous hour just waiting for it to get light out....so I can go running.  Last Saturday I ended up going to my high school track...where I was actually ON the track team in high school.  Varsity, five seasons (two indoor, three outdoor), captain my Senior year.....not even able to make a single running lap around the track.  Last Saturday, at the track I ran 5.1 miles, NON-STOP.  I ran TWENTY LAPS!!  TWENTY LAPS!!!!!!!!!!

I'm excited for the weather to warm up.  I've signed myself up for a whole slew of races so far...

March 13 - St. Patrick's 4M, Oxford, MA
April 3 - Greater Hartford 1/4 Marathon, West Hartford, CT
April 25 - Autism Awareness 5K, Worcester, MA
September 25 - Wicked Half Marathon - Salem, MA
October 9 - Mid-Atlantic Warrior Dash - Darlington, MD

I'm 90% sure I'm going to sign up for the Worcester Half Marathon in June...because I need SOMETHING between April and September!!

I don't know what has changed my life more, my RNY or running.  Because of my RNY I was able to start running.  Because of my running, I'm successful at my RNY.  What came first, the chicken or the egg - the RNY or the running?!  Either way...I'm down.  This surgery has changed my life and I would do it again in a second....oh hell, who am I kidding.  AJ (our swell post-surgical discussion group leader, yay!!) hit the nail on the head when he says that he'd do it everyday before work if he had to...and I would too!!  

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