I haven't checked in here in six years. Six years. So what happens to a surrogate that retires in six years? Well for me, the kids all grew up. They moved out. The first six months I swear I just slept and read books. We took some nice vacations. We still went to work every day and did normal stuff but I feel like the first six months were truly just recovering from raising kids for over 20 years. Then the inevitable "what's next" came up. I recognized the question because I faced it when I retired from surrogacy. So what was next?
I have been a jogger (plodder) for years now. I would jog some and then not do it again for a month and then go for a jog again. For some unknown reason, on 12/29/2017 I went for a run and decided to do it daily. Today, 3/10/20, I'm over 800 days into a run streak. I started and just haven't ever stopped. Meanwhile my husband had a mini-stroke and we went plant based in our eating (mostly...we cheat some) and he joined me on my run streak, his first day being 3/24/2019.
After about a year of running daily I decided I wanted to try a race. Joe and I had been training for a half marathon when he had his mini-stroke but that didn't excite me. I had done a 5K or two in the past and that didn't excite me either. So I signed up for a 50 miler. Because why not? I did the 50 miler in March of 2019 and loved/hated every minute of it. I signed up for a 100K that fall, followed 2 weeks later by a 24 hour race. I loved/hated every minute of those too. So I signed up for my first 100 miler. It is in 3 weeks. More to come on that later.
I did a tune up run, a 12 hour race last weekend. It was a blast. In a stunning turn of events I won my age group (and I wasn't the only one in my age group). I'm still slow and never will not be slow but I am learning how to hurt I think.
So that's the update. I plan to post here for myself, so I can talk about my ultras and training without boring those people in my life I love.
