Came out to a friend today...

Came out today to a friend. You read it right. Today I told my best friend that I wanted to run a 5k race in spring. It was the first time I'd talked about running out loud to a friend in a serious way. I've been here, but nobody reads this that knows me, or if they do they've made no indication that they know I've been running. It went well. He didn't burst out laughing. When I told him at lunch, that I was running at three today he didn't laugh then either. He and a friend went out to the path to meet me on my run, but I'd left early so we just missed each other. My hope was they were there to be encouraging. My guess is they were there to see if I was gasping for breath or not when I ran. Either way, more people know I'm running now. I don't know if I can say I'm a runner until I run a race. I may still just be a jogger. But today was a put it on the calendar day... came out to friends as a runner. Activity Route: -- Elev. Avg: 1102 ft Location: Fort Dodge, IA, Elev. Gain: +0 ft Date: 10/11/09 Up/Downhill: [+127/-127] Time: 03:18 PM Difficulty: 2.0 / 5.0 Weather: Cloudy 37 F temp; 44% humidity 37 F heat index; winds SSE 4 mph Performance Distance: 2.52 miles Time: 0:35:00 Speed: 4.3 mph Pace: 13' 53 /mi Calories: 351 Map Elevation (ft) Pace (min/mile) Splits Mile Pace (min/mile) Speed (mph) Elevation Gain actual +/- avg actual +/- avg 1 12' 57 -0' 56 4.6 +0.3 -36 ft 2 13' 21 -0' 32 4.5 +0.2 +26 ft end 16' 54 +3' 01 3.5 -0.8 +9 ft Versus average of 13' 53 min/mile

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