Negotaition

I came home late this morning after winning my age group in a local 5K race and asked Sue, “Do you think we could call Dr. Berg and ask him to postpone surgery until after I quit winning my age group?”.

Running has become a way for me to forget that underlying some of the best physical conditioning I've had in years is a time bomb which needs to be diffused. I am great-full that I'm still running but realize that twelve days from now my running will be done for quite some time.

New goals will need to be set and hopefully I will approach each one of them as another race to be run. I feel like I've got that part down pretty good.

Later ...... Mike

Almost forgot, after the race, at the awards ceremony the race director addressed the crowd informing that two of the runners amongst them were battling cancer. My name was announced and as I walked up to receive a gift certificate, I heard someone (twenty years or so younger) say, “That Guy Smoked Me”. That made the grin on my face go “ear to ear”