Did another 5k this morning -- the Jingle Bell Run in Tarpon Springs, FL -- and managed to get my pace under eight minutes per mile for the first time in a very long time. Like, about 12 years. Last August, when the kinder went back to school, I got serious about my exercise program. Now, only 16 months later, I am finally starting to run as opposed to awkwardly plod about the neighborhood like a dinosaur too stupid to know it's already extinct. I never would have thought it would take over a year to get the calf muscles back, but it did. To quote my friend Mavich, I was "quite the round hound" a year and a half ago. Being 30 pounds lighter doesn't hurt, either.
The Happy Wife and I both finished 2nd in our age group (and yes, it was a small group!).
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