When I first started this blog, I was in the midst of writing my thesis. I never in a million years thought I would actually finish, nevermind receive a big fat A! More recently I traveled to Disney World with my parents, their spouses, my husband, my daughter, and for four days, my pain in the bum brother. Now that the challenge and excitement of traveling with 8 people at the Happies Place on Earth is over...I am looking for the next mountain to scale.
I'm thinking...marathon.
The first and admittedly foremost reason why I want to train to run this ungodly amount of miles is that I have the sneaking suspicion that NO ONE in my family believes that I can do it. Hell...I don't so much believe that I can do it, but it would be nice to prove us all wrong, wouldn't it?
I am the Queen of unfinished things...I would love, just for this once, to finish something important. This endeavor would involve me finishing not one, but two things...Number One...the training and Number Two...the Marathon itself.
Now I'm not going crazy. I am not planning on BQ'ing or anything wacky like that. I am not even planning on doing this in the true near future. My plan, as I have sketched out thus far, is to do two half marathons (at least) first. The first half that I am planning to do is in October, the Nike Virtual Women's Half. Perhaps I'll do another in the Spring and plan my marathon for Fall of '09. I want to pick a "cool" one, a Rock N' Roll one perhaps, travel and have a blast.
Goodbye Toenails...Hello 26.2.
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