Another one bites the dust…. half marathon off my list

 

Half Marathon!!
 
I’ve been thinking about this blog for a while and finally have gotten around to completing it.  This has been a journey that has developed over the past three years, believe it or not.  So I see it only fit to start back at that time.  The spring after my son was born, a good friend of mine encouraged me to get out and start running with her.  She too, had a daughter the same age, and it was a good excuse to get out and enjoy our new lives with kids.  I’m not going to sugar coat this, because taking this step was effin hard!  I never enjoyed running, as my previous posts have mentioned, and I would avoid it at all costs when I was training in highschool for rowing.  I despised it with great passion.  But, I figured this would be a great way to help shed some baby weight that was lingering, and really still is.  I was only able to run about 100 meters at this point and had … needed to walk in between.  My mind was going crazy trying to convince my body that this was insane. I could not do this! My body was trying to tell my mind, that it was insane. I was crazy to think I could do this. 
 
 

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