About a year ago, my partner and I saw that there was a marathon going on in our city.
We talked about how difficult it was to imagine running that far all at once, however the more we talked about it, the more we realized that we wanted to challenge ourselves and give it a try. We set up a program to toil up to the distance and endurance needed to finish the race. We spent all year preparing, and finally, the day of the marathon arrived this past weekend. It is still only Spring, so the weather was unseasonably moderate on the day of the race. We ran together and kept the paces we had set. At the end of the run, we were both sunburned and hot. We went home and stretched out on the couch. We turned on our a/c for the first time since last summer time and just let it blast. It felt so wonderful to appreciate the a/c after such an awful day. We had no troubles running our a/c for the first time that season, as we just had it diagnosed a few weeks prior. We spent the rest of the day watching movies and eating pizza with the AC running. While I really enjoyed running in the marathon, I actually know that one time was enough for me. I had more fun cooling down after than I did in the actual run.