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Linda’s Marathon Dream
Last spring I was able to keep in touch with an old friend Linda. And I would remember that she always told me that she would like to run a marathon one day. She would tell me the story of one Sunday morning in the gym while she was on the tread mill running and the marathon was coming live on NBC and she would imagine herself running and being apart of it which motivated her even more when running on the tread mill.
Well my training buddy Fazal registered for NYC marathon but he could not take part because of his religious observation of Ramadan, he will be fasting for a month and from previous experiences knows that this time there is no way that he was going to run it so he also sign up for Chicago which was in October and was able to run that instead of NYC.
Well I made the call to Linda and I ask her if she wanted to run the marathon that I had a number and if she wanted to she can use it, now the funny thing is Linda lives in New Jersey and it was going to be a hell of a commute to queens so she can train. So we gave it a lot of thought and we came to an agreement that she will come to New York at least three days, I will change my schedule and take Tuesdays and Saturdays off, Thursday I will go in late and close the store, this will give her two days in the week and Saturday. Well she quit her second job at the restaurant and was now embarking onto a new journey.
As a trainer I encourage her a lot to be apart of this running community, I could have seen that she needed it in her life, the pages was turning in her life and she was maturing and needed to think for herself, there was decisions to be made and this would give here the time and place to focus and plan her life.I was amaze of her determination and dedication, sometimes we would train until 10pm at night because I would run for 5pm -7pm and the she would show up like 7:30 pm then I will run with her and keep her company until she was finished or sometimes just sit in the park and count laps for her or pass out Gatorade.
Linda then became a member of NY road runners club and was running 10k’s and 5k’s she also did the Bronx half marathon and let me tell you that was an experience for her, it was blazing hot it was her first long race like that, another memorable race was cow harbor 10k, from one extreme to another, this race was a complete wash out, there was a major storm in Northport LI. At the finish line there was water up to your knees, it was pouring rain, windy and cold. I could not find her at the finish so I had to stand in the middle of the road looking for her, when we found each other we just had to laugh. Great memories form great races.
So our marathon training continued with all day runs on Saturdays, she would run for 4 hours training to stay up on her leg for as long as possible ,sometimes take a lunch break and then continue. I sustained a major injury last summer so I was not running as much as I should ,by all means I should have rested and not run any more but it’s hard to explain ,there is an addiction to running and I am hooked really bad, I would still train with her and continue to push her in her training. Linda was doing really fine but then came a few problems someone slammed into her parked car by her job site and now she had no transport, so off we went car hunting for a while ,she was still able to use her mom car and showed up for training when one day I actually drove in the car and told her ,no way that she was going to commute with that car, the car was just not reliable for the distance that she had to commute, this had put a spin to her life and again she was faced with decisions and battles.
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Linda’s Marathon Dream
Last spring I was able to keep in touch with an old friend Linda. And I would remember that she always told me that she would like to run a marathon one day. She would tell me the story of one Sunday morning in the gym while she was on the tread mill running and the marathon was coming live on NBC and she would imagine herself running and being apart of it which motivated her even more when running on the tread mill.
Well my training buddy Fazal registered for NYC marathon but he could not take part because of his religious observation of Ramadan, he will be fasting for a month and from previous experiences knows that this time there is no way that he was going to run it so he also sign up for Chicago which was in October and was able to run that instead of NYC.
Well I made the call to Linda and I ask her if she wanted to run the marathon that I had a number and if she wanted to she can use it, now the funny thing is Linda lives in New Jersey and it was going to be a hell of a commute to queens so she can train. So we gave it a lot of thought and we came to an agreement that she will come to New York at least three days, I will change my schedule and take Tuesdays and Saturdays off, Thursday I will go in late and close the store, this will give her two days in the week and Saturday. Well she quit her second job at the restaurant and was now embarking onto a new journey.
As a trainer I encourage her a lot to be apart of this running community, I could have seen that she needed it in her life, the pages was turning in her life and she was maturing and needed to think for herself, there was decisions to be made and this would give here the time and place to focus and plan her life.I was amaze of her determination and dedication, sometimes we would train until 10pm at night because I would run for 5pm -7pm and the she would show up like 7:30 pm then I will run with her and keep her company until she was finished or sometimes just sit in the park and count laps for her or pass out Gatorade.
Linda then became a member of NY road runners club and was running 10k’s and 5k’s she also did the Bronx half marathon and let me tell you that was an experience for her, it was blazing hot it was her first long race like that, another memorable race was cow harbor 10k, from one extreme to another, this race was a complete wash out, there was a major storm in Northport LI. At the finish line there was water up to your knees, it was pouring rain, windy and cold. I could not find her at the finish so I had to stand in the middle of the road looking for her, when we found each other we just had to laugh. Great memories form great races.
So our marathon training continued with all day runs on Saturdays, she would run for 4 hours training to stay up on her leg for as long as possible ,sometimes take a lunch break and then continue. I sustained a major injury last summer so I was not running as much as I should ,by all means I should have rested and not run any more but it’s hard to explain ,there is an addiction to running and I am hooked really bad, I would still train with her and continue to push her in her training. Linda was doing really fine but then came a few problems someone slammed into her parked car by her job site and now she had no transport, so off we went car hunting for a while ,she was still able to use her mom car and showed up for training when one day I actually drove in the car and told her ,no way that she was going to commute with that car, the car was just not reliable for the distance that she had to commute, this had put a spin to her life and again she was faced with decisions and battles.
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