Team Transplant, UWMC

Wow!  Can you believe it? Have you taken a look at the
training schedule?…You only have to go 6 miles on Saturday!  Six
miles…Think about the last time you saw a 6-mile workout on your
schedule.  It may have seemed daunting at the time.  Could you
really run or walk that far?  Now…crazy enough…you might be
wondering…Is it even worth the drive to Green Lake for such a piddly
workout?   Six miles is something that you could do on any
ordinary day,  but the difference is that doing it with Team Transplant is
anything but ordinary.  What you all have been doing over the past 4 months
has been nothing short of extra-ordinary.

For whatever reason…you decided back in August to make a commitment to do this race, the Seattle Half Marathon.  Maybe you wanted to lose weight…Maybe you wanted to meet new people or reconnect with old friends…Maybe you wanted to show everyone that even at 40 or 50 or 60, you’ve still got kick in you!…Maybe you wanted to celebrate the fact that you’ve started a new journey in life, one that includes second chances and a new lifestyle… Whatever your reason…You’ve now discovered that Gatorade isn’t terrible, and that you love Fig Newtons…Your training turf ranges from Redmond to Discovery Park…You know that you can manage 10-12 miles, even when hills are involved…And…you’ve got a whole bunch of  friends who expect to see you on Saturday mornings…including this Saturday morning when you’re ONLY going 6 miles…

There’s nothing piddly about that….nothing piddly at all.