Moving right along January 3rd-9th

[Urlea]

Been pretty tired today, didn't sleep the greatest last night, probably because I was excited to run this morning. Late last week Maggie found out about a few ultra runners in our area doing group runs together & we were able to join them today for 16miles of a moderately hilly long-run out in the country.

Having never met them before & with all three of them being male I wasn't quite sure how it would go. Could we keep up? Will they be annoyed by anyone talking? What if I have to toot? Can I still video blog my run? Stuff like that.

After the first few miles though I was having a blast!! Such a great group of guys, quite conversational & our paces were matched relatively well.

Around mile 10ish one of the guys was starting to lag a little bit. I just assumed he was getting low on hydration or fuel so we took a short walking fueling break. He mentioned it was the meds giving him troubles & went on to tell me he has Hodgekin's Lymphoma. I was shocked to find out here he was running 16miles in -13F only a few days after having CHEMO! I'm still having a hard time wrapping my mind around how much passion he must have for running to work through it all. Wow.

Anyway, we ended the run having gained 3 like-hearted comrades. I am looking forward to more treks with them. It's nice to have more ppl to run w/ and others navigating instead of just me.

Grog Glad to hear you are healing well & easing back into it!