Just a quick reminder about the Altoona 15k on the 4th--it's a great race well worth running.  It's actually the first road race I had ever done (1990 I believe).  At that point, I hadn't ever actually completed 9 miles.  But my friends convinced me that I would have a better chance of winning an age group trophy.  That seemed to be a worthy goal.  Odd.  Anyway, they were right, but I struggled!  I ran it again when I got out of the Marines in 1996.  Again, I had far too high of an opinion of my fitness and staggered through the last few miles.  I tried to hang with Terry Shea who at that point had just finished at Bucknell.  I'd say that he trounced me, but we weren't even in the same race--figuratively speaking. 

 

I've run it twice since and enjoyed it much more.  We might go to the race, but I'm still out of commission, recovering from a post-marathon injury.  They always seem to get me! 

 

Happy trails,

 

Art