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AngryOldDem

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5. I'm 52 and have been running for about 2 1/2 years.
Thu Apr 18, 2013, 05:57 PM
Apr 2013

It was something that I never thought I could do (bad flashbacks to gym classes), so just to see if that were true I joined a Walk to Run program at my local Y. Since then, I've done several 5Ks and some 10Ks, and one 15K, and am going to try my skill at a half-marathon here in a couple of weeks. Depending, my time per mile is 9:30 to 10:00.

I try to get out as much as I can, work and weather permitting.

Speaking of falling -- I DID fall on black ice a few months back. I went out, assuming that things were dry enough, hit a patch of said ice and fell straight on my tailbone. It hurt like a mother for weeks. I'm glad I landed where I did rather than straight on my back or my head, because I flew straight up to the point where I felt horizontal for a few seconds. Luckily, I was at the end of my block so I hobbled back home and called it a day.

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