10 Miles

Remember how I said I'd rather go to the lake in the morning instead of run?

Well, we finally made it to the lake.

Last summer I was recovering from a C-section and thusly a "sissy-pants."

This summer I was determined not to be....

In the process I lost a contact lens, blackened my eye and my arm, and severely limited the range of motion in my neck.

I was feeling the effects this morning when our course went around the lake.

I couldn't decide which would be worse,

getting back in the water

or running up the GINORMOUS hill to get back home.

In the end, I didn't really have an option,

and so I ran.

When I got back in to town, I think I was expecting banners and a newspaper headline that read something like, 

"Local couple wakes up at 5:30 in the morning and runs 10 miles."

 I guess, really, it's not that big a deal.

But, I felt like I was changing the world.