Law Students

Running from the Law: Finish Strong

By Vado Porro

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 In less than a month, I will be able to follow my name with the letters "J.D."  This three year, six semester, incredibly challenging journey will be over, and I will stand at the beginning of the rest of my life.  May 10th is graduation day.  It's the finish line.  It's what we're running towards. 

At the same time, I'm training for my second half-marathon.  I'm on a mission to beat the course closing time of 3:15; but I'm also on a mission to beat my last half-marathon time of 2:20.  My friend who I run races with is training with me, and we're a little nervous about how it's going to turn out.  We began training right after spring break, with only 5 weeks until the race.  We stepped up our mileage at an alarming pace, going from a 4-mile long run to an 8.5 mile long run to a 10-mile long run.  We've done this before though.  We have two ten milers, a half marathon, and a lot of 5k and 10k races under our belts.  That doesn't change that we want to run the whole race and finish strong; that we want to do better than the last half marathon we did.  Every race is a challenge, but every race ends the same way - the finish line.

When you run a race, nothing feels as good as realizing that you are almost at the finish line.  I start counting down to the finish as soon as I'm past the halfway mark.

Full post as published by Ms. JD on April 16, 2010 (boomark / email).