Sometimes
the road gets tough, yet sometimes I experience a glimpse of humanity and I’m
lifted up. Sunday I ran the Maine Half Marathon for the fifth consecutive year.
With nearly four thousand runners, the race is one of the most popular in the
state.
Start of Maine Marathon-Half Marathon Portland, Maine 2013
I remember my first one
quite clearly and while it was only four years ago, it seems worlds away. My colleagues
had challenged each other to train over the summer and run the race in early
October. I was looking for the
feeling of being part of something and started training in June. While I had been a runner in high
school, that was twenty-five years earlier, plus I had other priorities and
diversions that I used as excuses to keep me from running for years.
