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“You’re doing excellent, Bella,” Marcus crowed. “I think we can have you running before you know it! Perhaps you and Edward can do the next Ironman race!”
“Watching him compete in that race was exhausting. I couldn’t even imagine participating,” Bella smirked. She blinked to Edward, who was working at his computer. He’d competed in a race in early June, improving his time slightly, but he said it would be the last Ironman he’d do. His body was too worn out and his knee was very swollen by the time he completed the race.
“Why don’t you try to do a 5K, Mom?” Jake said from a weight machine. After okaying it with Alice and Edward, the boys came to the center to work out while Bella went to physical therapy. Seth played with a soccer ball in the gym while Jake worked to build up more muscle. He was being recruited to play on the varsity football team. “Start small?”
“Do you think I could do that?” Bella asked Marcus.
“You’re getting stronger every day. Your stamina is improving and I think it would be good for you to have a goal,” Marcus said, leaning against the elliptical. “From the moment you rolled into the center, your goal was to walk. Well, thanks to my awesome boss, you are walking. And walking quite well, too.”
“I still feel clumsy,” Bella shrugged. “But, I’m walking.”
“I think that you are coming close to the end of your physical therapy, Bella. What’s your end goal? Running a 5K? Doing an Ironman triathlon?”
“I’ll just watch Edward do the Ironman,” Bella quipped as Edward walked over to them. “That was something, baby.”
“I thought I was going to die at mile fifteen of the marathon,” Edward snorted. “My legs were throbbing; my head was aching and I just wanted to lay down.”
“And who got you going again?” Jake quipped. “Come on, old man!”
“You’re a punk, Jake,” Edward laughed. “But, I appreciate you dragging my ass for a mile. I’d been slacking in my training. I’m not old! Battered beyond all recognition? Yes.”
Marcus
Jake
Seth
Edward's done ... at the Ironman
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