Amsterdam Diary #8
A Milestone
Just 5 days before Amsterdam, RBR reached its 200th session. For 200 weeks people have been turning every Tuesday to run. A significant milestone.
It is interesting to think about it, from an achievement point of view, but also as how much things and people can change during that period of time. The beauty of tracking and documenting journeys is that we can go back in time to almost any point to remember how things were then, usually to our amazement and realisation that what seems exactly the same, is no longer.
People come and go. Looks change, live evolves, seasons passing by. A lot of this happens over 200 weeks.
Looking in retrospective, it is great to be able to look back and think how you have been able to be part of someone’s life, even for a short period of time, but also how many different people have come along in different capacities and stints.
I guess it might be similar to the feeling that teachers get in school. Dozens of students will pass a class every year, and once it’s over, they move away, not seeing that teacher ever again. We move, continue with our lives, aspire, dream and look for greatness in our own particular way, yet, teachers remain there, every year, static, waiting for the next wave to come.
Maybe that what we RBR have become. Maybe that’s our role. Stay there, week after week waiting for the next wave.
That said, it is great to have a group of people that is willing to come every Tuesday and go for a run. That was and continue to be the original premise.
It all started with a “do you want to run on Tuesday night?”. From there we’ve been now done 3 international marathons as a group, plus dozens of other races nationally and abroad, as a crew, or as a single person always “representing”.
We might not be the biggest crew, but we are definitely a tight unit, one where we know we can count on each other. But most importantly, a group of friends that has mature and flourished, all just because of running.
