{"id":187,"date":"2007-11-16T21:09:22","date_gmt":"2007-11-17T02:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ucog.org\/blog\/?p=185"},"modified":"2007-11-16T21:09:22","modified_gmt":"2007-11-17T02:09:22","slug":"1000-miles-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucog.org\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/11\/16\/1000-miles-later\/","title":{"rendered":"1000 miles later"},"content":{"rendered":"

This time last year I started running again. One year later I have logged 1000 miles.<\/p>\n

Once I held the half mile record for the 3 campuses of Ambassador College in the modest time of 1:57:03. After graduation I continued \"Paul to run off and on until about ten years ago. One thing I never did but always wanted to was to run a marathon. The young lady in the picture just behind me got me to keep my word to run a marathon with her – a promise I had made some three years earlier when I saw her on a Sunday afternoon in Cincinnati. Earlier that day she had just completed the "Flying Pig" marathon. When I saw Mary Ann Miller on the Feast of Trumpets in September 2006 in Venlo, the Netherlands, she reminded me of my promise. So in November 2006 I started running again. After a ten year layoff getting started was a bit tough – I could not run for more than about ten minutes at a time. But I kept on going and in April of this year Mary Ann, her friend and soon-to-be fiance Matthew Bates and I ran the Bonn marathon.<\/a> Like Forrest Gump I decided to keep running for a while. So I ran a half-marathon in Cologne last month. One year later and about 15 pounds lighter, those 1,000 miles make a big difference. On December 9 I will run a half-marathon in Dallas with Monica and our son Ted. I am somewhat proud that son Ted has started running.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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