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Running Down a Dream


I have a long distance training run tomorrow. My running buddy, Jackie - age 47 who kicks my butt!, is talking about running at the beach since the Half Marathon in 22 days is along the ocean too. She's up to a 12 mile run. I think I'm good for maybe 10-11 and walking the rest.

This is one of those moments where I ask myself, "Who am I? Did I really just say that I'm gonna run 10 miles. Me? WTF!" LOL

I've raised over $700 for this marathon's charity of choice, the Free Wheelchair Mission. Which has me even more motivated for my training while still feeling anxious about it, which I'm told is normal.

I surprised myself by saying, out loud, that I'm considering running a marathon in 2010 or 2011. Something I would never have considered before, even a month ago. But there's something so frightening about the challenge of 26.2 miles that it intrigues me. Especially after watching the Nova special about the Boston Marathon and recently viewing the documentary, "Spirit of the Marathon."

I tear up when I see these people cross the finish line. When I posted my blog about my Half on my Spark site, people wrote that they teared up reading about me crossing the finish line.

That moment is powerful. And the intrigue for me, is to find out for myself, just how that feels.


Happy Weekend!

posted on Jan 9, 2009 2:26 PM ()

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You go girl!
comment by spicybitch on Jan 10, 2009 11:53 AM ()
A half seems like enough, but I know a full Marathon is the pinnacle for runners. If you want it, do it
comment by stiva on Jan 10, 2009 8:43 AM ()
My wife trained and did the 60 mile walk in DC in the fall. We had to raise $2000 before she could do it. We ended up raising $2400. When she finished that she came home and burnt out the tread mill. We had to buy another one and I had to make sure it was a good one. She comes home now and hops right one it and now puts in on full incline because she's preparing for another fund raiser to race up the stairs of a 44 story building (88 flights). I'm not sure what clicked, but she's become completely driven. She use to lift weights with me years ago but gave it up and now she's off on this. I'm incredibly impressed. However, when she was training for DC and we walked the dogs, me and the dogs had to drop out because we didn't and probably couldn't walked another 10 miles with her. Best of luck...great story...
comment by strider333 on Jan 9, 2009 5:18 PM ()
awesome... I love the changes in you girl!!! I am sure you are enjoying them as well...
comment by kristilyn3 on Jan 9, 2009 2:34 PM ()

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