Today's Take it and Run Thursday asks bloggers to share their running dreams.

There's this race I've been wanting to run for years, now.  The Uwharrie Mountain Run is this really rugged race through the Uwharrie.  They hold an 8, 20, and 40 mile race simultaneously.  Someday I want to run the 8 mile race.  It's the race I was training for when my head exploded.

I had my aneurysm in January, and the race is held in February.  Needless to say, I didn't run it that year.  In fact, it seems like every time I go to run this *(^$&#! race, I'm injured.  The race is also very hard to get into.  In fact, I tried to sign up for the 2009 race but I just wasn't quick enough.  Two years ago, I actually had a registration in hand and then I had to drop out at the last minute because of a sprained ankle.

I don't really know what to do about this race.  Do I give up on it?  Do I just keep trying?  I really want to run the damn race.  It really bugs me that I haven't been able to manage it.

If there's anything I've learned over the years, it's that everyone leaves this world with things unchecked on their mental To Do list.  You're never really finished.  So maybe I should let this one go.

Still, this doesn't seem to be my style.  I flunked out of college, and a decade later I went back and finished.  Hell, I even went back many months later and finished the seven mile run my brain aneurysm had interrupted.   

What do you do with a dream deferred?