When you are a runner, you sorta just bond naturally with other runners - you just get it. Sorta like when we had a jeep and we had that 'jeep wave' with other jeep owners.
Friends of ours that live in our town (and our girls are mutual friends too) are runners. He is a long distance runner and she is like me, half marathon kinda girl. Well he is running the Ultra marathon next month (30 miles) and wanted to squeeze in a full before as a training run. So, he plotted a marathon course in our town, created a facebook page and invited any runners in the area to join in. I thought this was such a great idea - no fees, no chips or times but he did put out drinks by his house and plotted the run to pass through parks for the water fountains. I wished so much I could have run with him but since my job is babysitting now and watching my little A, I couldn't and I refuse to push that jogging stroller for longer than 1-3 miles!
I loved hearing how their run went, he finished in a pr time for him of 4:35 and his wife did 10.5 miles in a good time for her. I hope next year when he sets this up I will be able to run. We went out for dinner/drinks with them that evening to celebrate. I love when people are self innovators. Maybe I'm biased because I'm a runner - I just got it why he wanted to do this.
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