There was an article in our local newspaper recently about a girl named Laura who was the youngest to complete 50 marathons in 50 states.  She’s not even 25. In fact, the almost-25-year-old completed 55 marathons in just over two years.  (You can read about it HERE.) I was impressed! And she’s from my area.

She was even on NBCNews. (Watch HERE!)

I told my best friend (since college in 1974) about Laura and she said: “That’s Danielle (her daughter)’s friend Skwig!”  They went to high school together and then Cornell.  They both even lived in NYC.

Small World!

Then today, I was looking over my Blogroll and clicked on a blog that I hadn’t read lately – Absolute(ly) Fit.  This was one of the first blogs that I subscribed to when I started running in April 2008. (You can read her blog HERE.) Yes, you guessed it – it was Laura’s blog.

Small World!

Back to me and running:

They say a bad run is always followed by a good run.

I hope so.  I had a lousy run yesterday!!!!  I didn’t run in the morning and then it rained on and off all day.  It was humid and I had a headache all day.  When I got home from work, it had stopped raining so out I went.  It felt like I had never run before.  I had to walk at least once every 1/4 mile…finally finished 3.5 painful miles in 42 minutes.

I had a headache all nite and barely slept at all.  My husband subbed for me in tennis this morning.  My headache is finally gone but I still feel tired & nauseous.  I am skipping Mah Jongg tonite and resting up for my 5K race tomorrow.

Happy Running and good luck to all those racing this weekend!