After 10 years of thinking about it during hundreds of runs, I finally beat 8th-grade Jarrod running cross country. My best time for our 2-mile races back then was 16:02. Today, I cut about 30 seconds off that time and then continued on four more miles in the 80-degree heat. 📷
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