Saturday, February 11, 2012

We Ran For Sherry Arnold Today

A quickie post today... mine will be one of thousands today that are dedicated to Sherry Arnold... the woman who was abducted and murdered recently, while on an early morning run in Sidney, Montana.  Senseless, tragic, heinous, outrageous.... ultimately sad.

The Captain and I ran 4 miles this morning, and it was a scheduled Saturday run as part of our half marathon training.  It was somber and quite odd that even though I found the physical part of the run very difficult today, I ran my fastest 4 miles in several years.  I guess I was pushing it harder than I realized at the time. 
 
And I felt it needed to be hard today.  I wanted it to hurt.  I wanted to be exhausted and have my lungs burn and my legs ache... to match the hurt in my heart today.

May you rest in peace, dear Sherry Arnold.  We hope your family is somewhat comforted by the global outpouring of love and respect from the running community.

bibforsherry

8 comments:

  1. so beautiful and what a nice tribute. she was smiling down on her fellow runners' today!

    have a great day :)

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  2. we ran for Sherry today too! I imagine her smiling down at all of us...

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  3. Way to get out there and push it for such a special event!

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  4. Beautiful post, Elle. I am glad so many people ran for her.

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  5. Fantastic, Elle! Way to make it a great run. =)

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  6. It's beautiful that so many people have come together for this.

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  7. Beautiful tribute. Glad you had such a meaningful run.

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  8. Great run and I am glad you pushed yourself and dedicated it to such a great cause. You rock!

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