First post
I almost wanted to keep the generic first post up there. But it was not to be.
So a few months ago I made the decision to start training for a marathon. Drastic? Yes. Crazy? Yes. With the Vancouver International Marathon being less than four itty bitty months away, am I nervous and more than a little behind? Holy shit yes. I went for a jog yesterday and my mind got the better of me about 20 minutes in. I was so proud of myself up until that moment, and then…poof. I started thinking about what was on TV. “What could I be watching right now?” “Why is it so windy?” “It’s gusting really badly, I don’t want to get caught up in a gust and end up in the middle of the street. I should just go home.” I barely made it 4K. That’s about 40 kilometers short of my target goal come May. What the fuck am I thinking? I realize that my problem is mostly focus and that I could probably go further than I did. I probably could have done 10 the other night but I wussed out because of the cold wind and went home, even though I wasn’t a) cold, b) uncomfortable in what I was wearing, or c) likely to get picked up by a gust of wind and carried into the middle of the street. Then I made the even wiser decision to not stretch my quads when I got home, resulting in a pain today that any runner who’s made the decision to have a bath “because it should help my muscles, shouldn’t it?” instead of stretching properly has had to deal with the morning after, further screwing my plans to run in Vancouver because I missed my clinic tonight. Fuck. I’m sincerely hoping that after this week I’ll get some of my discipline back, and I really have to start focusing on what I’m eating. Look at me talking as though I’m an athlete or something- I’m just a girl who made a decision a few months ago and then screwed herself by actually telling everyone she talked to afterwards about it and how “I am definitely going to do it!”. I realize that anyone reading this post will have difficulty since I apparently have forgotten how to use paragraphs, but the minute ramblings of a crazed wannabe marathoner (which is SO gonna be the name of my blog) have got to be entertaining at the very least. I have to finish homework and then actually try to sleep.
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