Sometimes life is good
I had a good day today. Although I would've preferred to be running in Saskatchewan Marathon this morning, my injury prevented it, so I made the best of things and headed out on my bike. Jason Warrich and Martin Keino were competing against one another in the half-marathon, along with Ted Jaleta, my friend and coach. So, I got a few pictures of them, and then spent a good portion of the half-marathon riding along beside Ted, cheering him on.
From left to right: Matt Scobie (doing the 10km), Jason Warrick, Martin Keino, Ted Jaleta.
Jason ended up edging out Martin at the finish, and Ted came in third.
It started raining quite heavily partway through, and I ended up getting soaked, but had a good time despite that. After Ted finished, I went out looking for my friend and training partner, Jason Tomaz, who was participating in the full marathon. He was doing well when I found him, but may have pushed the pace a little bit too much, as he had a difficult second half. He managed to finish in 6th place, with a time of 3 hr 11 min, which isn't bad, but still considerably slower than he had hoped for.
The rest of the time, I was cheering on pretty much everyone else. You can really tell how much some of the people out there appreciate the encouragement, they always give you a big smile. Sometimes one of the runners will be suffering a bit, or getting tired, but a few words are enough to get them to dig a little deeper, and pick up the pace again. I'm glad I could do my little bit to help out.
I ended up being out on my bike for about 4 hours, and by the end of that my leg wasn't particularly happy with me, but I'm really glad I was out there. I ended up being about an hour late for church, showing up just before they took communion, but I think I made the right decision to go out there and cheer people on. I could've stayed home and felt sorry for myself because I wasn't able to run the race I'd been looking forward to for the last eight months, but that wouldn't have accomplished much, and I think this is a better way to deal with adversity.
When life gives you lemons, spray the juice from them into their eyes, and blind them! Or something like that.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled posts about Ireland.
From left to right: Matt Scobie (doing the 10km), Jason Warrick, Martin Keino, Ted Jaleta.
Jason ended up edging out Martin at the finish, and Ted came in third.
It started raining quite heavily partway through, and I ended up getting soaked, but had a good time despite that. After Ted finished, I went out looking for my friend and training partner, Jason Tomaz, who was participating in the full marathon. He was doing well when I found him, but may have pushed the pace a little bit too much, as he had a difficult second half. He managed to finish in 6th place, with a time of 3 hr 11 min, which isn't bad, but still considerably slower than he had hoped for.
The rest of the time, I was cheering on pretty much everyone else. You can really tell how much some of the people out there appreciate the encouragement, they always give you a big smile. Sometimes one of the runners will be suffering a bit, or getting tired, but a few words are enough to get them to dig a little deeper, and pick up the pace again. I'm glad I could do my little bit to help out.
I ended up being out on my bike for about 4 hours, and by the end of that my leg wasn't particularly happy with me, but I'm really glad I was out there. I ended up being about an hour late for church, showing up just before they took communion, but I think I made the right decision to go out there and cheer people on. I could've stayed home and felt sorry for myself because I wasn't able to run the race I'd been looking forward to for the last eight months, but that wouldn't have accomplished much, and I think this is a better way to deal with adversity.
When life gives you lemons, spray the juice from them into their eyes, and blind them! Or something like that.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled posts about Ireland.
posted by Matt at 7:43 p.m.
1 Comments:
That sounds highly pleasant. I'm glad that you went out to the marathon anyway.
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