What is up?
Last Saturday morning (7/26/08) I ran in a 5K race (3.1 miles). It started and finished in East Lawn, one of the oldest cemetery's in Sacramento and the race ran through the fab-forty's neighborhood (a richy-rich area of Sac). The was about 1,000 people that signed up for the race and the event was put together well. I did pretty well over all in the race. I ran a 0:29.7 min race (~9:30 min mile average.. my personal best) and was quite sore by the end of it all.
I started running about a year ago to help with some of my health issues (mental and physical). Not EVER really running for a sport in my 40 plus years and not being in any kind of shape for twenty years, it has been a struggle.
A little back story: With all my physical problems that I developed from slamming meth and drinking hard alcohol nightly, I had to deal with some pressing problems a few years back (05/01/05). First, I needed to get clean and sober. Second, after a few months of being clean, I went through the interferon treatment to try and rid myself of Chronic Hepatitis C virus that I contracted from being a drugy. The interferon treatment went on for 72 weeks (almost a year and half) and it was HELL! I was deathly ill every weekend and by the time I started to feel a little better, the next weekend came. So I would have to inject myself with the interferon to get sick once again.
After the 72 weeks of treatments, I had a lot of aliment's that were caused from the treatments and had to have a couple of surgery's and give my liver some time to recoup.
So that brings me back to running and trying to get my health back ........ (to be continue)
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