First run

It was the first weekend of June. I was already a month late in starting my training. 

I saw the ASHA group at the entrance of the park, and we trudged to the 'ASHA tree' inside the park. Before I knew it, we were told to start running 1.5 miles. I felt an adrenalin rush, but it soon faded and I was puffing and panting trying to maintain a 15 min mile pace...Monel, a mentor, ran with me talking all the way. She kept me distracted and I was able to complete 1.5 miles after 2-3 walk-breaks. 

Then Coach Jane talked to us about running shoes, and dry-weave T-shirts and shorts. I had no idea that there was a better fabric than cotton to run in! The socks too needed to be better than cotton, if you wanted to avoid blisters! It was a whole new world to me. The last time I ran- cotton was the best fabric around...it was a very long time ago that I had run last- I was all of 13 yrs old and took part in the high school marathon which was all of 1 mile! Here I was more than 20 yrs later, and signing up to run 26.5 miles. 

It will be an interesting journey, and I'm as curious as you are to find out if I'll be able to run a marathon this year.