Sole Mate (no I don’t mean soul mate)

October 4th, 2008 , 11:18 am by Michelle Halsne

Went  to the gym today to jump on the treadmill.  I was not sure if I would run a couple of miles or go for my current max of 1 hour.  I figured it would work itself out. 

I keep all my running clothes in a separate dresser in the laundry room, it makes it easier for me to keep everything for running in one location and when you have been running for as long as I have the volume of clothes and accessories requires it’s own home.  I pulled a random shirt out to wear and noticed it still had a tag on it, oh boy this is my shirt from White River …the race I dropped out at 27 miles the beginning of my forced interregnum from running.

It was a tough call but since I had finished the race last year, I decided it was not a federal crime to wear this shirt to the gym.  Bad memories and all.  My run was going fine I was at 3 miles and kind of losing interest in going further….that’s when it happened I saw my sole mate (running shoe sole that is). 

She got off a bike in front on me and I noticed she was trying to catch my glance.  I looked at her and there I saw it, she was wearing the same shirt from this years White River 50 mile race.  We exchanged more information in our returned smiles than any other person in the gym could understand.  We have more in common in our ultra world than even our spouses can grasp.  She shared enough spirit with me to give me the incentive to go for the hour instead of quitting at 3 easy.  I will assume that since she was a bike, she too is rehabbing an injury, wherever she is I will be secretly giving her my energy as a sole mate should

Workout:

  • Type: Run
  • Date: 10/04/2008
  • Time: 09:00:00
  • Total Time: 1:00:00.00
  • Distance: 6.75 miles
  • Average Pace: 8:53.33/mile
  • Max Pace: 7:35.7/mile

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2 Comments

  1. luluorange said,

    October 4th, 2008 , 4:38 pm

    That’s awesome that you would run into someone who has been thru the same thing. Even better that you turned the encounter into motivation to keep going with your own workout. How cool is that!!!

  2. kimayars said,

    October 10th, 2008 , 10:24 pm

    That is such a cool story! I almost got misty… :-)