Sally and I ran the Stratford YMCA Sweetheart Run over the weekend. The course is four miles of sharply rolling hills through the residential neighborhoods of northern Stratford, CT. It starts and ends at Booth Hill Memorial Park . *** Pre-Race Of the two of us, I think I’m usually the one that puts more pressure on himself before a race, and Sally is the one who tends to take it as it comes, satisfied to do her best without any real expectations. This race was a little different, however, because Sally won her Age Group last year for the first time ever at this race, and during the weeks leading up to the race, I could see that she was keen to defend her title. Moreover, the Sweetheart Race is a four-mile run , and Sally is a runner . Meanwhile, I don’t tend to think of myself as a runner so much as just a guy who runs , and paradoxically, I think that makes these pure running races easier for me, at least mentally. Anyway, as I wrote in last week’s training diary, I decide