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March 29, 2008
getting the goat
Since I've been in CNY, I've avoided, religiously, the Mountain Goat, a ten-mile race that takes runners up Syracuse's most painful hills.
Every March I get the glossy brochure in the mail. Every March I look at the elevation graph and the course map published on the website. Every March I decide that such hill-running-nonsense would be absolute torture and misery.
I'm not sure happened this year (D?? you want to weigh in and remind us why we decided that *this* would be the year??), but not only am I registered to run the Goat, as it is affectionately called, but also have signed up to participate in the weekly training runs, that introduce runners, slowly, to the hill-hell they have to look forward to.
This morning was the second training run.
And just let me say: I LOVE IT. I love running the hills of Syracuse. I think I might actually be out of my mind. I'm not sure if it's the idea of going for a run with 300 other people, or having a no-pressure training run be manned with volunteers and water stops, or if it's simply the change of scenery from my own tired, still gray, still snowy Parish village runs.
But whatever it is, I am back in love with running.
Posted by mryonker at March 29, 2008 12:22 PM
Comments
Exercise love is such a fickle beast.
Posted by: TEOM? at March 29, 2008 04:25 PM
I believe it is our inherent masochistic/selfish natures that have compelled us to make this the Year of the Goat. You'll remember we always said this would be the race at which we'd volunteer, but never run. BAH! Clearly we'd just be jealous watching others experience all of the joy of vertigo, shin splints and heart palpitations.
Posted by: deb at March 29, 2008 06:01 PM
I think it gives us something else to look at. In my case the ground - I can't think of looking up and seeing that I haven't completed even half of that dang hill! The architecture is great. Of course the weather is slowly getting nicer so it also lifts our spirits. I actually said to D, what a great day it was on Saturday. We didn't have to wear the layers, hats or mittens. It makes us really appreciate nice weather.
Posted by: J at April 7, 2008 12:54 PM