This day was a changing point in my history, in my life, in my being. You know as you get older these days get less an less. You get stuck in the rat race and you never get out. Life, think about it.
You get comfortable, you make resolutions, you say when I get around to it, you promise you'll start tomorrow...I could go on forever and ever. One very important aspect that we, as a family, instill in our lives is live up to what you're saying. So, you say you want to run a half marathon then by God you better get your ass training and run that damn half marathon or stop friggin talking about it. Talkers KILL ME SLOWLY. They kill me with BOREDOM! Yup, and there's a damn lot of talkers out there and I'm not being rude if I make a 180 and walk in the other direction, I just don't want to hear it and I think listening to it may seriously be taking precious moments away from my life.
My favorite sentence of FOREVER is 'Just Do It!' If I ever got a tattoo on my body it would be a Nike symbol just to symbolize this sentence. Trust me, I'm not getting inked anytime soon but I have thought about if I ever did what would I get for about 15 years now and this symbol is what represents my thoughts and mind to a tee!
I love it when people take a risk and bring a challenge into their lives. Maybe it's as simple as going a week without coffee. Little task...BIG CHALLENGE to some! I don't care what the task is, fill me in because I love that shit!
Well, I talked about it and I did it...I completed my first 1/2 Marathon (first ever running race really) with a time of 2:11:22. EXACTLY the time I set as my goal to accomplish it in. Like I said where there's a will there's a way! Gosh darn it and I had to dig hard for that will at mile 6.5.
Mile 6.5 was where I could honestly cry every time I stepped down with my right foot. I remember having a internal battle with myself as I started the run around Silver Lake. It went something like this (I will even use the language, sorry...keepin it real) Internal Self ': Heather, seriously what the f are you thinking. This is just stupid, just walk to the end. ME: 'Shut the f up I'm not walking. There will only be two ways I'll finish this race, running or on a med cart.' Internal Self: 'Ok, this hurts REALLY bad, it's not worth it. Just stop, it's too far. ME: 'I'm running, I will not stop.' Let's see this internal battle went on for almost 7 miles! The biggest battle of this race was not the pain it was the battle to dig for that will to finish something I wanted to accomplish.
As I sprinted across that finish line I was choking back tears. These should have been tears of pain but instead they were tears of accomplishment. I had done something in my life that I never thought I would ever, ever do. I'd never run more than a few miles at a time and believed anymore than that was unreachable. I COMPLETED WHAT I STARTED and for that I deserve a full post!
Our smiles, along with Scott's shirt says it all...
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