The last week I've been laid up with a nasty little spring cold that just won't go away. The week before that I was suffering from the worst case of shin splints that I have ever encountered and had to miss a few scheduled runs in order to let everything heal up. So my total mileage seems to have gone down but not from a lack of interest for a change.
I've been keeping my eye on the Krista Duchene story. For those of you that don't know her she and fellow Canadian Lanni Marchant competed in Rotterdam and made the IOC qualifying time by 7 minutes. However, the Canadian selection committee has set a time even faster than that. They missed by 2 minutes. Instead of allowing them to compete we are not sending a single female marathoner.
I personally think that it would do great things to allow these women to run. Canada hasn't sent anyone to the Olympic marathon since 1996. If we want to create some sort of excitement for the future we need to start sending the best we have even if they don't think the can medal. People break legs and people preform above themselves all the time. You never know what will happen! I mean what fun would it be to watch the games if we could predict the outcomes.
Now that my shin splints are finally healed and I am almost free from this spring cold I will be out again with time to ponder my next blog and the posts will be a little more frequent.
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