One more intermediate distance run and one more long distance run and then Janet’s Goofy’s Race & a Half Challenge training should be completed. And boy oh boy is she ever looking forward to her last long run/walk combination.
It’s not that she abhors the actual run and speed walk training. Standing on her feet 40 hours per week while working is the villain that extinguishes what joy she has for her chosen participation sport. The training part, that is!
Anyway, Janet courageously completed her next-to-last long run early last week and she has that last intermediate distance run coming up Wednesday the 14th.
During that training run and all subsequent runs, I’ll be escorting her on my road bike from start to finish, joyfully carrying her Gatorade and water on my sleek road bike. Immediately afterward, however, I’ll be joining my cycling comrades for our classic bike rides to and from Weston’s Einstein’s Coffee Shoppe. It’s there that we guys and gals solve most of the world’s problems, if only in our demented minds.
Any thought of me signing up for Disney’s Three Caballeros 5K has been distinguished by reality. All I can envision is messing up my knees and back ever more and then not being able to walk normally while in Walt Disney World. With us having season passes to all of Disney’s theme parks, and Janet running both Saturday and Sunday, I need healthy legs and a strong back just to keep up with her. I have vowed not to let her down!
Besides, I must listen to my doctor’s advice.
Then again, it's only 3.1 miles...
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