June
Wow, that was close. June almost expired without a RunRichmond post. What would you have done? I could see the jumpers already. June has been really busy. Adjusting to the return of Daughter #1 from college, kicking off the 10th year of MTT and attending my high school reunion made for an interesting month in a lot of unrelated ways.
I had totally forgotten that people in their late teens tend to stay up until almost the time I get up to run. Then they sleep until about the time that people my age hit Denny’s for the blue plate special. We tend to pass each other in the hall in very different stages of our day. Thankfully a certain burrito chain has prompted a schedule change. So now we see each other far more often; and that’s still a good thing.
Yep, the tenth year of MTT is the biggest yet. I have received the crash course welcome back to Saturday. Saturday is way different than Sunday! Not better, just different. Think about it, trips to NYC and Steamboat Springs are both fun, just very different. That’s kind of the difference between Saturday and Sunday. It’s been great running with all the different teams over the first few weeks. Every year I am amazed at the great coaches in this program and how much time they volunteer to make it a success. Another thing amazes me each year, the team dance. No, we don’t have some competition with a British guy and a bunch of choreographers. Our dance is much less organized and more like extemporaneous speaking. In other words, it makes little sense to the casual observer and appears totally unrehearsed. My goal time is X, should I be on Teal or Indigo? I really don’t like running early, can I be on Navy? I ran with White last year but had a really bad Marathon, I think I need to change teams. Oh, that’s the “slow” intermediate team, I think I would be better off on the faster team. This is a sample of what we hear during the first month of MTT. We also hear, that’s the team I wanted, I love that coach. All my friends are on this team, perfect choice. The biggest thing we are trying to avoid is the thought process that team assignments have a huge impact on Marathon success. They don’t. Obviously, running the novice schedule will typically not lead to a 3 hour Marathon but running on any of the intermediate teams could yield the same result on Marathon day. Someday I will figure out the magic words to make people understand…..
I have never attended a high school reunion until last weekend. Honestly, I have had no contact with 595 of the 600 members of my high school class since about eight weeks post-graduation until I “got on facebook.” Seeing all the “news” about the reunion on FB made me decide to attend the festivities. It’s interesting how the mind works. You go to a reunion and see people that you have not seen in almost thirty years and in your head you kind of expect them to look the same. Guess what? Very few of them do. There were about ten people that I would have recognized if I had seen them on the street walking around, the rest could have been wearing random nametags and I wouldn’t know the difference. Oh yeah, if you get a chance to go to your 30th high school reunion – go.
Oh yeah, the 5 people that I had seen since graduation? We attended a college graduation for one of them at JMU. It started with beers (pre-game) and proceeded to dinner with her family. Apparently I was a big hit with grandma at dinner. The denouement included pulling over on the side of I-81 and falling down some hill (for the record, I was not driving)….Those were the days………………..
Run Well.
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