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10 Memories, 100 Discoveries: Memory 8 – Turkey Trot
Huxley said, “Memories are a man’s private literature.” Memories are private and you never know which ones will be picked up, stored away and treasured. In 1 Year, 10 Projects, 100 Discoveries, ten of the discoveries are memories- fun, sad, happy, I’m not sure what types there will be, but I do know that they will all be treasured. This post is part of that project. You can see all 10 memories here and the entire project here. Enjoy the memories, I am!
I’m not the biggest fan of Thanksgiving. It’s one holiday that I usually skip and rarely return home to Florida for. This year, I was spending Thanksgiving in my new city, Columbus, alone. It made sense. For the new gig, Black Friday is the biggest day of the whole year and there was no hesitation in my mind that I would be working it. In essence, I was trading working one holiday, New Year’s, for another.
One of my colleagues shared with me the Columbus Turkey Trot. A fun way to start Thanksgiving and feel guilt free about anything consumed that weekend 
Thinking it was a 5k (not 5 miles), I enthusiastically signed up. What the hell? I had nothing else to do that morning. Two days before the race, I checked the race site again, only to finally realize that it was a 5 mile run! Oy vey, I hadn’t truly run since Disney. But, it was too late to turn back.
For the first time in a race, I wasn’t worried about finishing last. I knew that even if I walked, I’d still make the finish. And, finish I did! With a time of 1:04:43 and an average pace of 12:57, I finished 640 out of 671 in my age group and 3,922 out of a total of 4,381 finishers. Surprisingly, I think it was a personal best for me!
With great weather and high energy, the event was the perfect memory for my first Thanksgiving in Columbus. It’s also one tradition I’ll continue (apparently there’s a Turkey Trot in every city)!
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[…] year, I took part in my first Turkey Trot. It was a blast and one of my favorite Thanksgiving memories. Of course, I wanted to do it again […]