so i ran the chicago marathon yesterday.
it was hard. i'm very sore, and i am walking like an elderly robot. and today, after all the hoopla and excitement and nervousness and cookies and pizza and friends and cheers, i am emotional. and missing my mom.
one more big giant thing that i don't get to share with her, or ramble on about the funny shirts i saw, or the posters hooooney and yale and all my friends made. she wasn't there with a box of dumples at the finish line, like we agreed she would be when i registered in march.
yes, i know, she had a great view. and i know she was "there in spirit". but it is not the same. and today, it REALLY feels like 'not the same'. i've been teary eyed all day.
i cried in the shower yesterday morning when i was getting ready to leave for the race. big silent gulping sobs. and i choked back tears a couple of times while i ran. for missing her, for her missing all the rest of everything big and small that happens in my life.
dear ones, you were awesome. amazing. and i am humbled and inspired by your Big Love. seriously. i can't even describe it except to say thank you.
you rock. i did it, and you did it with me. i could not have done any of this, the training, the loving, or the crying, without you.
if i were any cheesier, this post would have been titled "wind beneath my wings".....
ok. home now for more iced knees and Yale-home-made cookies. and kleenexes, probably.
4 comments:
hugs!
Congrats on running the Marathon! I know your Mom was watching. I remember trying to find Roxi the year it was so hot. At least you had cool weather.
I have missed a year and half of Roxi and Anni's adventures, so I feel the disappointment of not being there. Glad Yale and your friends were there for you. Roxi will be home in 2 days! Next week we'll be up at the lakehouse if you want to come visit. Would love to meet Yale!
I just read something in the paper that says marathoners should now do a reverse train to help flush out the bad stuff out of joints and get new clean blood in the joints. That you are supposed to do something like 3mi, then 4, then 5 and keep moving. I don't know if you can even move but they say it actually makes it better. But who am I to talk, still sick on the couch. I just don't want you to hurt.
Great job rock star!! I want pics and more details asap...by the I am reading this and posting on AMerican internet and ALMOST PEED at how fast it is!!! love you
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