500!

It happened on Sunday afternoon.  Somewhere out on the old railroad bed near Paradise Lake.  It might have been right after I passed the horse and rider.  It was about the same time that I took my GU gel.  I still had 5 more miles to go in my run that day.

Somewhere along the line, I passed an invisible line of great importance and also of no importance.  The line was the 500th mile that I've run this year.

Now I know there are many of you that say "big woop, I passed 500 two months ago."  I fully understand and that is why for for just about everyone else on the planet, Sunday's landmark was a non-event. 

However, there is one guy on the planet that thought it was a pretty big deal--me!  It's a big deal because I don't think I've ever ran 500 in a year (well, maybe in high school when I was on the long distance team).  And I certainly have never hit 500 in under 5 months' time.  So I'm pretty excited.

I think I'll ice my knee to celebrate!