couch to 5K in seven years

I ran my first 5K race on August 9. Andrew ran the same race. He finished ten minutes before I did, so I can’t say that we ran together. But he drove 2.5 hours to run the race, so that counts as together. Nancy came and cheered for both of us.

The last time I tried to run for fitness was the summer of 2011. Two or three times in a week that summer, I ran and walked about a mile. And then my knee started to hurt in a damaged way. I went to the doctor. He said to stop the high impact of running....