Why do runners in the Atlanta Track Clubs Peachtree Race so value their t-shirts?”
What kind of idiot gets up at 5:00 AM on a national holiday to go run six miles in the heat? I’m that kind of idiot, and today I joined about 55,000 other such idiots in the Peachtree Road Race. My goal was to run the full course, without slowing to a walk. This goal turned out to be unrealistic. I ran the first three miles without a problem, but then I reached “Cardiac Hill,” a long uphill stretch so-named for the obvious reason, and also because there is a hospital conveniently located next to it. About halfway up the hill, I started feeling dizzy, and I decided it was better to abandon the goal than to collapse. After clearing the top of the hill, I set a new goal: run the remainder of the course. That didn’t work either; after a half mile or so I again started feeling queasy. So, I set yet another goal: walk to the five-mile marker, and then run the last 1.2-mile stretch to the finish. I accomplished that. I didn’t really run a 10K today. I ran a 5K and a 2K, with a 3K walk in betw
