Day 19 - 5 miles

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." - William Faulkner

Miles Ran: 53.8 Dollars Raised: $500

I'm a competitive person.

Part of the reason I started running was because I've always played team sports and still crave that sense of pushing myself to compete...and win. I know I am just a beginner at this running thing, and will usually get beat by a couple hundred people in large races, I'm always trying to get one step ahead of the person in front of me.

When I'm running in the pack I'll usually pick out one person at a time to catch up to and hopefully leave in the dust. The same goes for when I'm running in Boston and see another fast runner ahead of me. There's been times where I feel like I'm literally racing some random guy to the next intersection, and we are neck and neck sprinting, not acknowledging each other... and then of course, I kick it in to high gear and let him see the ponytail fly by him.

Sometimes though, and this happened a few times on today's run, I actually scare myself because with the different street lighting I will see MY SHADOW coming up behind me and think it's a person about to pass me! hahaha So I start to kick it up a notch until I realize, "hey! That ponytail looks familiar!" I guess you could say it's my inner runner trying to beat myself and my personal record subconsciously...and embarrassingly.