Moonlight Beach

Met up with Team in Training's north branch teammates to do a run this morning at Moonlight Beach in Encinitas. WOW! Talk about such a beautiful place to meet, I laughed at how ridiculously stunning it was when I got there!

The 3 mile run was led by one of the Team in Training mentors, Dharma, and we ran on the side streets that were by the beach. A beautiful place! Had a nice time talking with the four other people that were who had been training together for some time and had done the Carlsbad half marathon together. We did 6 minute run, 2 minute walk, which is more my speed because one minute walks are just not enough!

I learned about strength from the Team in Training mentor who oversaw the run. She had said that her 8 year old daughter, Chloe, had died five months earlier because she had taken a medication and had medical complications because of it. It came completely sudden, and she wasn't even sick before taking it. Her friend had asked her if she had done anything that brought her purpose and joy, to give her a reason to go on, and she had said she really enjoyed doing the half marathon with Team in Training the summer before. So her friend told her to replicate it, to train for another race. So she decided to train and contacted her friends, family, and parents of her daughter's friends, and they all trained together and did the Carlsbad 1/2 marathon in memory of her daughter, and called themselves Chloe's Crew. 60 people in all! The story is here. The five month anniversary of her daughter's death was the day after the 1/2 marathon. She's now training for the Rock n' Roll full marathon with Team in Training, as well as be a mentor. She told me running has given her a reason to wake up in the morning.

Dharma, you are an inspiration!