I keep telling myself I can do this. I have done it before. Thousands of others have done it before me.

However when you really sit back and think about it, who in their right mind would spend up to 5 hours running?

But yet that is what I signed up for. Not only signed up for, but paid (lots of) money to enter a race… and paid (lots of) money to train with a group. And the ironic part is, for a sport that costs relatively nothing. When you think of running, or at least when I used to think of running… you throw on a pair of sneakers and walk out your front door and you’re good to go.

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