My goal is simple... to run a marathon in Maui in January 2017. (Because if I'm going to run a marathon...why not do it in Hawaii.) I would like to run the marathon at a 9:30 pace and figuring in a few this and that's that would have me finishing the race in 4.5 hours. Seems totally do able.
I have charted this whole idea out and on paper it looks totally doable. It makes my think I can eat this elephant. However, for those of you who don't know me let me introduce myself. I am 46 years old. I started running in September of 2014 with the Couch to 5 k program. I was doing great and then I tore my Achilles Tendon in my left leg in October of 2014. I started to run again on January 1st, 2015 and took it easy to start. Unfortunately other factors were at play with my body and I struggled to run for just 30 secs at a time. My frustration grew and grew as I struggled with my running, and also with a health issue I wasn't really handling well. Finally in July I went to my doctor and let him know something was wrong because before I got hurt I was running really well and now I just didn't have the stamina to keep up the pace. Turns out...I had developed Crohn's. Yea, that was the condition I was ignoring. Today I am on meds and while the Crohn's is under control my running is not coming back as fast as I want. But today! TODAY I ran well. TODAY I hit a goal. TODAY running a marathon seems like I can do this. TODAY I know I am crazy.
Now as I said in my first paragraph when I came up with this idea that I could run a marathon I was only running for .2 miles at one stretch. That was about 2 months ago. Today, December 26th 2015 I ran .42 miles and .44 miles without stopping. One was at the start of my run and one was at the end. I didn't get much more running in the rest of my time but I can live with that.
The whole point of this blog is to record the journey I am trying to accomplish. To write down my goals and keep myself accountable to those goal. To be brutally honest with you the reader and with myself. I want to relish my accomplishments and acknowledge my struggles so that I can learn what I'm doing wrong and try to fix them. I plan to record my weight, pictures of myself, all the messy stuff on here so if you are not interested in reading about how I had to pee in the woods..again, this might not be the blog for you.
Tomorrow I will give you my stats as this entry is getting long winded. I hadn't intended to start this blog today but was going to wait until January 1st but since I had a major woo hoo moment I had to start this today.
Thank you for reading. What's your ELEPHANT?
-Tammy
