Run, Peretich, RUN!

I’ve basically disliked history since middle school ... Maybe it’s because I had boring teachers in school or because it required memorization or because I didn’t realize what an idiot I’d look like later in life when I constantly have to ask my husband history questions that start with “Yes, I know I should probably know this ...”, but I basically hate history. I had to google Mount Vernon to figure out that this race was at a president’s home. I mean, I guess the name George Washington Patriot Run probably gave it away, but when I first signed up for this one, Zach just said he wanted to do the Patriot Run in Alexandria. Zach’s First 5K! We have a goals board at the gym. Every so often - because I lose track of time and realize it’s been much longer than 3 months since I’d like to update the board quarterly - I have folks pick a SMART goal, something that is Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Timely. Zach hated running, so I was super s...

So I started this blog ... Decided it was finally time to start a running blog, mostly for myself, but for anyone else that has previously enjoyed my Facebook posts after some of these races. The Quantico 12K seemed like the perfect race to start with. It also took me about a month to type this all up. Hopefully I'll get better at this in the future (had to figure out how to easily get photos added in here from my phone, blah blah blah). One of my 2018 running goals was to run all of the races in the Marine Corps Marathon Event Series , so this was a new race I'd never done before. Of course, this was before I knew I was having shoulder surgery in late March. I planned the surgery for after the March 17.75K and hoped I'd be cleared in time to run the Historic Half in May. I started with the 17.75K (11.03 miles) on March 24, followed by the Historic Half (13.1 miles) on May 20 and the Belleau Wood 8K (4.97 miles) on June 23. And then I didn't really run in Jul...