Our Fearless Leader!

Our running group is being trained by Dr. Jamey Gordon, owner of Fort Wayne Physical Therapy. Now if we aren't fortunate enough that we're being trained by a physical therapist, Jamey is also a runner. He does marathons.

Today, while Romie and I were outside planting shrubs and cleaning up the gardens, Jamey was in St. Louis running 26.2 miles. He did a darn good job of it, too. Out of nearly 10,000 runners, he placed 957th, putting him in the top 10% of all runners. Out of the 4246 male runners, he placed 698th, which places him in the top 16%. Great job, Jamey!

We have group training tomorrow, and I doubt Jamey wants to hear about how much of a struggle it was for both Romie and me when we ran today. But it was. When we got done, Romie said to me, "That was not fun at all." I wholeheartedly agreed.

Romie's been having hip pain, both sides. My legs were just tired and I didn't breathe well. We both only managed one five-minute run - the third one out of the four. The other three runs were broken up into running two or three minutes, walking a minute, then finishing out running so that the running part equaled five minutes.

For me, it probably didn't help much that by 5:00 p.m., when we started our run, the only thing I'd had to eat all day was two oatmeal raisin cookies. Nor the fact that I'd just spent five hours working in the gardens. I didn't forgo eating on purpose, I just was busy and didn't think about it. Serves me right that I had difficulty, but I don't know what's up with Romie's hip pain. He's going to take a few days off to see if the pain goes away.

This too shall pass.