02/09/2026
I spent 3 weeks in my hometown saying goodbye not only to my mother, but to my house. Along with the house came so many childhood memories, this one is about running.
I have always run along the same routes, back in cross country days, high school days and all my visits back as an adult. As I neared the house on my last run from there, I learned that you can cry while running, it’s just not recommended 🤣. It makes it very hard to breathe!!
I found some old 5k certificates of my moms, one of which was only 7 months after I was born!! Her times were great, I never ran with her but on my last run from her house I ran her pace and thought of her as a strong adult with goals and ambitions and how proud she always was of my accomplishments and races.