What a difference a year makes

They say you’ll never know where life will take you. I’ve come to believe this is true.

364 days ago,I set out on an 8 mile run, fully intending to meet up with my Team In Training team. As it so happens, I got lost. After driving around, frustrated, I decided to say uncle and head to a local trail I knew well and do the run on my own. I didn’t have my iPod with me, so I had no choice but to entertain myself some other way during the roughly and hour and a half or so I’d be out there.

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