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    After some issues with body pains, I started going to the gym again and working out hard. Great, I feel so much better.

    So I have a pile of t-shirts from various races:5ks, sprint triathlons/duathlons, half-marathons. I would love to do the Miami half marathon, but that would be dumb. I haven't been training, and I could really kill my knees before the big superbowl week...dumb dumb dumb. So I guess I will have breakfast at newscafe and watch all the runners. I will do the tropical 5k the day before the big race, and shop around for another race to run later.

    Anyone done a fun half marathon? I'd love to run NY, but I cannot commit to a race in the fall, nor a full marathon. I am thinking late spring/early summer marathon that has a half marathon option.

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    My mom just did a half-marathon last year. She has four kids (including three teenage sons), a bad back, spinal arthritis, and she's overweight. She was bordering on obese, but she's lost a lot of weight since she started running, and somehow it's helped her back and neck problems. She was quite proud because she finished the half-marathon before the full-marathon winner crossed the finish line; it was a big day for her. She's still running every day.

    Anyway, the point is that if she can do it, anyone can. She had only been training for a few months when she did the half-marathon. I think she's going to do it again this year.

    Memphis has a marathon/half-marathon in May. And there's one in L.A. sometime in the spring or summer too, if I remember right.

    Me, I can't run. It makes my knees and boobs hurt.

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    Oh, I have done them before...both with and without training. But running on asphalt (as opposed to treadmill, boardwalk or beach) hurts without training, especially the slope of the street putting unequal pressure on your knees.

    Point being, I don't want to be in pain at the start of superbowl week.

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