I have been involved in some form of athletics for just about my entire life. In this time, I have been a part of a few great teams, but I have never really won an individual athletic event. I take that back. I think I may have won a blue ribbon or two during field day at Fallsmead Elementary School back in the day. Well, my three followers, that all changed yesterday. I was the overall female winner at the Heritage Half Marathon on Dover AFB! Granted, there were a total of about 39 people running, and my time was nothing terribly spectacular, but nevertheless, I won!
I am not going to lie. I needed that. With Ironman training in full swing and work a semi-calamity as always, my nerves have been a bit of a wreck. The training hours are picking up, and there are days that my work hours and the hours of the pool/gym/daylight do not agree with the swim/bike/run schedule. Oh, yeah, and this is the worst allergy season in the history of time, and I have been getting short of breath just talking to my patients. It is awesome!
As I was saying, the hours are piling on, and the up side of that may be that i I am so sick of riding my bike in the basement that it may override my fear of riding my bike on the street. The paralyzing fear that I have of having to complete a 160-minute ride next weekend is, I think, going to be thwarted by the mind-numbing boredom that is the stationary trainer. Nascar is coming to Dover next weekend as well, and I figure that if I can survive a ride on roads filled with Dale Jr.-loving, RV-driving rednecks, I might just be able to do this!
I am also going to use this post to make another shameless plea to everyone to make donations to my three charities. It is, after all, my birthday month. In lieu of gifts or cards, I am urging my friends, loved-ones, and enemies to donate to either CAF, the MS Society, or City of Hope. In case you need the links again, here they are!
http://www.firstgiving.com/ginasenkowski1
http://www.firstgiving.com/ginasenkowski2
http://www.firstgiving.com/ginasenkowski3
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nice gina! i will never win an athletic event so you can do the winning for me. also, good to hear i'm not the only one wondering why my allergies are kicking my ass. i literally have to bring my inhaler everywhere and that's never happened to me before!
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