A gift on National Running Day. (run not included)

Birth is a life changing event. Most of us are fortunate never to remember the actual process that it took, but our Mothers will remind us if it was bad for them. My mother never said that it was that much of a traumatic experience. My son however will most likely be reminded about how things went by my wife. It was very exciting but also very difficult on my wife. I even had to change the first diapers and do the first feedings because my wife was really put through the ringer. She is walking around as if she had some total body marathon all form a bed. Yikes, I thought training for a marathon and then running it was tuff, what she did was just amazing.

My son was born on National Running Day at 1:49AM, so I was unable to get a run in yesterday. Very little sleep and having to be a dad changed priorities for me. I was all talk about how I would be fine leaving to go back to school and go for runs even while in the hospital. Like I said that was all talk and that I will most likely get my first run in on the weekend but the earliest Friday. After that, I have no idea how to plan or make plans for times like these.

I am looking forward to try to be a good role model for my son. I hope that he ends up being a runner and is better than I was or will ever be. For now, I think that I am going to take all this in, and worry about running later.

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