(Nearly) One Year Later…

Fitting that I return to the list (which has been languishing only electronically) to post a quick (technically, 58:35) update and officially cross off #12, “Run in a 10K,” which builds off my most “recent” post. Last Saturday, I laced up my sneakers and participated in the Ukrop’s Monument Avenue 10K in Richmond, my home town.

I was a bit nervous about my knee holding up (my handful of training runs were hit or miss, with a number of frustrating moments of intense knee pain), but what with the adrenaline, the perfectly lovely spring weather, and the presence of friends Jennifer and Karen, I did just fine and never had to stop to stretch!

It was a really wonderful experience, running past any number of life institutions (the apartment of an old piano teacher, my high school, my parents dispensing high fives…) and down Richmond’s historic Monument Avenue (Richmond is the only city in the world with a street of monuments of people who lost a war….but it now includes a monument of Arthur Ashe!) And the  festive city spirit was amplified by VCU playing in the Final Four that night.

An annual tradition may have been born.  (A couple itty-bitty photos of me running:)

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