Waking up

The world of running has come out of hibernation.

Many pro athletes have already accomplished or missed their season's main goals.
After many long winter months of training through snow, sleet, aches, and pains, they come out, guns blazing, hopes held high, hoping to hit their peak fitness on race day.

Twenty-six men and women have been crowned as World Champions in Doha, Qatar.
In two hours, five minutes, fifty-two seconds, the record of the world's most historic marathon, Boston, fell.
The Virgin London Marathon, singley the largest fundraising event in the world, has already success raised millions of dollars.

The rest of us are getting used to the sunshine creeping through our windows, motivating us to rise early in the morning and see what awaits us in the long hours of the new days. Temperatures rise, and with it, the motivation to pull out those dusty runners from the closet, or to put on your game-face yet again as you down a quick breakfast before the first run of the week.

While Elites have already had successes and failures on a grand scale of exposure and media flurry, the average Joe and Jane are just starting to think about the first fun runs, or even races of the year. We too, have expectations, maybe to run to the mailbox without losing breath, or maybe to finally convince your loved ones that running isn't for the masochistic or sleep-deprived.

The rest of the running world has awoken. What are you waiting for?

DP