I am Doug. I am 47 years old. I am running out of time. This blog/website started 5 years ago because of all the curiosity/questions that people had surrounding my first marathon. I finished my marathon . . . I have since ran 2 more marathons and an ultra marathon. ..I still run . . .and I still write . . .and I'm still running out of time.
This is it . . .
Saturday, July 2, 2011
10 miles 5 schools 12 years in 90 minutes
I ran by 5 of the schools I went to as a kid today. Didn't run by my college as that would have added another 120 miles to my run. I left at 5:15AM. It was already 85 degrees and the dewpoint had to be in the mid-90's. My shirt got heavy with sweat by mile 2. In a sense, I ran from 1975 to 1987 in 90 minutes. Fairly symbolic of how quickly my life seems to be moving right now . . .my kids lives seem to be moving even quicker than that. Ten miles in 90 something degree heat won't buckle me . . .but thinking about how fast my kids are growing up - - -that hurts.