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Now Frank trains daily on the course as he puts in 45 miles or so a week the year round. “I’d always been an athlete but I didn’t start running until about four years ago. I’d ruptured my achilles tendon playing basketball and I had to spend a year on crutches or at the most, just walking. To get back into shape, I started jogging. I’ve always . felt the tendon injury resulted from being out of shape. I was an athlete but I was a sendentary athlete who played one basketball game per week,” Reynolds said.
The first time he ran, Frank covered .8 miles “and then I feel down in the yard, nearly dead, ” he admitted. “It took me three months to get up to three miles.” I
In the meantime, the jogger went to a road race. “It looked like fun so I tried it and I got hooked.” Five months after' he started jogging, Reynolds competed in his first 10 miler.
“It feels so good to have your body run efficiently. And doing something well is a lot more fun than doing something half-way,” he explained. "I’m not really racing against other people as much as using the race as a way to measure myself, to push myself...You get a mild euphoric feeling, a runner’s high. It doesn’t happen every time you run and it doesn’t happen to everyone, It’s just a good feeling all over. The same thing you can get with any strenuous exercise. The discomfort disappears and all of a sudden, it all falls together.”
In the Fodderstack, that falling together is a little nicer, according to Reynolds. “I’ve run 50 races—more than that—and the Fodderstack is the most challenging course I’ve ever run. There’s a small town atmosphere, a spring time in the country feeling that all the other runners really enjoy. But they all talk about the hill," Reynolds added, chuckling. “The big hill. Rappahannock’s version of the heartbreak hill in the Boston marathon."
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