Out to Beernuts and Back

So Saturday was my first day of training with TNT. We met at the Normal Amtrack station that sits on the Constitution Trail and with everybody there we maybe had a group of 30 people.

What a change from the AIDS Marathon program in DC!!!!

In DC, the program had hundreds of participants for just ONE marathon. Here we had less than fifty for five or six marathon options.

We introduced ourselves and said what event we were running and then we were off - off for the Beernuts factory and back. Pretty funny if you ask me.

Along the way, I met a fellow named John whose father passed away from Lymphoma and whose brother was just diagnosed with it. It was very sobering listening to his story and reminded me just how lucky I am to be able to lace up my shoes and get a 4 mile run in before the day really begins.

John and I have similar time goals (he's also running Chicago), so I'm hoping I'll be able to run with him regularly. And NO, he's happily married so don't be thinking I might get to DATE him or some radical idea like that. Nope . . . this one-horse town appears to be a no-boy town for me. At least for now.

My love life aside, I am happy to be back in training and have a goal in mind. I guess I'll be seeing that Beernuts Factory a lot as I log the miles.

SIGH.

In DC it was the monuments, the Potomac, and the National Mall.

This might be a LONG summer.