Independence Day

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Woke up this morning to a good amount of rain. Checked the radar and saw that it would be moving through the cities pretty quickly, so I had a quick breakfast, a little coffee, and drove over to the south end of Lake Harriet to start my run. Not far into my run, it really started to pour. Made me laugh. Actually, on the quiet, mostly empty paths around the lake, it made me open up my arms and smile. Why not? It was warm. I was drenched, but knew I'd be that way regardless by the end of my run. And it felt great to be out and about early on a Sunday morning, weaving my way along Harriet, then up to Lake Calhoun and Lake of the Isles before working my way back down again, tackling this weekend long run on my own.

Today's mileage: 10 miles in 01:46:30 (about 10:40/mile)
Total mileage: 132 miles.

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A Few Notes

robert (now and then)
(hover to see RKB in 1990)
After running two marathons in October 2010 with Team in Training, I've decided to "slack off" with just the one marathon in 2011.

This year will be in memory of Siona Shah, an amazing young girl who spent the final third of her too-short life battling leukemia with courage, grace, humility, and smiles.

It will also be in memory of my step-grandmother, Ruth, who passed away on June 15th after a recurrence of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma.

I'd originally started using this site to tell my story -- roughly eight months of treatment in 1990, as well as the impact leukemia had on me in the years that followed. Much of that story is still available through the "Table of Contents" below (starting with my initial diagnosis while I was studying in England).

 - Robert K. Brown
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