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It blows my mind when I check my Facebook and have a comment from someone I admire SO much.
It scares the shit out of me when I get a message from him because truly I don’t know what I am going to get. Is he going to grill me on running 5 miles every other day? Will he be giving me a pointer on my next race? Will he have another pearl of relationship wisdom? I never know.

Yesterday I posted the fact that I was thrilled that I got 42 out of 44 on my second 10k. I mentioned I wasn’t the last in my age group either. When I saw he posted something, I set my phone down and let my stomach settle before I read it. What I was expecting was, “that’s not enough..you need to push…go be strong..”
Instead he compared our struggle of our runs. AS IF my measly 10k (his warm up) is anything to compare to his hundreds, but he told me in a message before that fast is relative and we all run our own race. It brought me to tears again. He reminded me at the end what it really was…a nice run in the sun.
I was so grateful that he keeps me grounded and in his unique way motivates me to be a better person in our running world. He pushes me when I think I am not worthy of this blessing.
Sometimes I get lost in my head out there and I always hear what he told me on our run together when I am out there.
That conversation is mine and I thought of sharing that time so I wouldn’t forget it and so others can learn from it. There is SO little in this big world that is all mine, and that time is something I will cherish. My friend Amanda, Tabitha and Lester (who was there with me) are the only ones that I want to share it with. The one thing I am going to be selfish about. :)

It still just blows my mind.