Description: Running, Essentially . . .
May 4, 2020 by Lynn Deutscher Kobayashi Leave a comment
With nearly four decades of distance running under my belt, I have stories; running 23K in the Klondike Road Relay at 2:00 a.m. with reports of a grizzly on course, running 10,000 feet above sea level in Ethiopia, crossing the finish line of the Boston marathon 9 minutes before the bombs went off. And now, running through a pandemic.
I’ve been a daily runner for the greater part of my years running. While I started as a fitness runner, I discovered that I was “born to run” and went beyond my original fitness goals to compete, peaking as a competitor in my late-forties and early fifties. During this time, I set a 30K national record at the Hamilton Round the Bay, an Ontario age-group record of 3 hours and ten minutes for the marathon, that stood for six years and placed 3 rd in my age-group at the Boston Marathon and 1 st at the Chicago