Hannah, Im so excited to see you on the blog- Ive been waiting! Welcome.
I have to tell you that I was so jealous of you when 1. You got my best friend for your roommate, and then 2. You guys started running together! My running friend was stepping out to run with someone new!
She'd say "Yeah, we are running 3 miles every day now". Id be like "Hmm. Sounds dangerous. You'll probably wear out your knees...."
I loved Sara Corbett's article in Runnersworld magazine Jan. 2009. "Someone to Run With".
She talks about the same situation- her college running friend Sue, and then her later running friend Clare, and then moving and Clare finding a new running friend to replace her (Sara was jealous, too, just like me), and then in the end of the article she meets a new running friend, Lily. The whole thing had me in tears, and so appreciative of my running friends- old and new.
As Sara said "Any Friendship that is based on running is, in essence, about accrual- of time, of miles, of intimacy built over a lot of small steps forward."
I took a maturity pill and decided to be happy for Marcie- that she had a good running friend. And now thanks to Marcie's blog- running is connecting all of us, all over again.
So here's to our running friends- old and new- and the sport that connects us all!
And if any of you want to have a sentimental feeling about your running friends, Ive included the link so you can read Sara's article. http://www.runnersworld.com/article/0,7120,s6-369-374--12992-0,00.html
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I love this, Lindy. I don't mind running alone, but it is so nice to have a good running friend. I think we should try to find a race in a centrally located place that we should all train for together. Or maybe we could plan a race in Hawaii or somewhere fun like that! It could even be in a few years. I would love to meet you all.
ReplyDeleteAmen to everything you said, and I see a relay race in the future for all of us! What a party we'd be!
ReplyDeleteI second that - here's to running friends old and new! Great article. Tears were shed.
ReplyDeleteI'm totally on board for a relay race! Let's do it!