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Running Around

Wow, have I been busy. I haven’t had much time to gather my thoughts about politics or current events since I’ve been doing so much running around these past few weeks. And I mean literally, running around. We just started the spring track season for Virginia high schools, and I’m coaching a hurdler crew that should represent very well at districts and regionals. Barring injury, I think it is likely we will have more than one hurdler at States this year – for both the boys and the girls teams. We really are looking that good. And the rest of the track team doesn’t look bad either. We currently have three athletes who are nationally ranked.

But in addition to running around as a coach, I have also been training myself. I and several of my coworkers are training for the 2007 SunTrust Richmond Marathon in November. That’s a long way off, so we chose the Ukrop’s 10k as an early step.

That’s tomorrow morning, and it will be the first timed run I have done since I got out of the navy 8 years ago. It will also be the longest distance I have ever been timed for. But I’m not concerned with the time, as I will be pacing my slower coworkers. A few of them have never really run before, and I am really excited that they are coming out for this race – and hopefully for the marathon this fall. I care a lot more about encouraging them than about determining whether I can finish this race in under 45 minutes. Probably couldn’t quite pull that off, anyway. I haven’t done any speed training.

So I ate a lot of tortellini tonight (called “carbing up”), and I am rounding out the evening with some 7&7s (called “getting a buzz”). I will take a camera with me tomorrow and share a couple of photos of beautiful downtown Richmond, VA. And maybe even find some time to catch up on some things I’ve meant to blog.