9-1-07

Today I got up at 5am. I ate breakfast and left the house by 5:30am. I was the first car in the parking lot for the Women's 4-miler race. It was still dark, and I took a picture of the moon. 2700 women raced on this day! I wasn't sure if I could do it, but after running 2 miles I thought, "maybe I can make it to three" and then after three miles, I thought maybe I could make it to 3.5 and after that, well, I was home free! I ran 4 miles in 53 minutes without stopping. That's a really slow 13 minute mile pace, but I did it! I haven't run 4 miles without stopping since I was 19 years old, and by my calculations that was a long long time ago....