We all have goals - in some form or another. It's odd the timing that goals decide to takeover your body and become a realization of something you're actually going to do. Mine usually hit me like a bag of hammers in the middle of the night. That's nor here nor there ... the point being that my bag of hammers was more like a sledge hammer and knocked me into some alternate universe where I know not what I'm doing!!!
So, where is this rambling taking you... well, for those of you who are visiting my little blog got my letter/card ... I have begun training for my very first marathon!!! Yes, I'm serious ... I'm training to run 26.2 miles around the great city of Nashville on April 28. 2007 in the Music City Marathon!!! I promise, I'm not being medicated right now, I'm serious.
This could be one of the most invigorating things I've ever taken on. I've always said I wanted to run a marathon but never really had the motivation nor the desire to complete nor tackle such a task. Until a while back ... I sort of had a come to Jesus with myself. Well, actually, I had just completed planning my first, and totally successful benefit golf tournament. In 5 weeks, I helped raise over $5000 for a friend fighting cancer. It was THE MOST amazing feeling I'd ever had. I'd always considered myself a selfish person, until that moment ... when we handed over $5000 in cash. The emotion was way more than I could handle. Knowing that my ambition and goal (if you will) made such a difference in someones life, I could only wonder why I wasn't helping people left and right. So. Here I am. Running a marathon to help raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. And I gotta tell you ... it feels phenomenal.
Monday, December 18, 2006
Sunday, December 17, 2006
My first blog
So, this is my first blog and my first entry. Hopefully not TOO overdue???
I'm just kinda playing this whole blog thing by ear, it's kinda weird, but hopefully I'll keep some of you interested!
I'm sure you're wondering what started this whole marathon thing, so I'll start there. Well, it's kinda been one of those "I wanna do this before I'm 30" things for a while. I'd gotten a direct mail piece back in September from the Leukemia/Lymphoma society and I figured... "why not??" Me and my emotional self, I cried when they showed the film on mothers and sisters and best friends that had been faced with all these types of cancers and it made me start to think. First of all, the people I knew that had to take on these illnesses, and secondly, seeing the accomplishment in the eyes of all these people who were just like me and had actually trained and completed 26 miles!!! Again, I cried like a baby! It was pretty much at that point that I realized this was totally something I could and would do. So, I signed up!! Since then (which I think was October something) I've been getting mentally prepared for this run.
The way the program works is awesome. EVERY Saturday we have a group run. That's when everyone in the Nashville area who's participating with TNT gets together and does our distance run for the week. Since the majority of us are amateurs, the mileage is quite small at the moment (I do 2 miles, 2 days a week and 6 miles every Saturday until the end of December), but that number will start to build SHORTLY... all the way to 22 miles the first week of April!!!
So, that's where I'm at. Well, sort of. I'm gonna write a new blog each Sunday... so keep up, dang it!! I think you can subscribe on this thing, so I hope you do. Please ask questions and tell me your stories. I really can't explain how this whole thing feels. It's quite amazing.
Take care and I hope to hear from you soon:)
I'm just kinda playing this whole blog thing by ear, it's kinda weird, but hopefully I'll keep some of you interested!
I'm sure you're wondering what started this whole marathon thing, so I'll start there. Well, it's kinda been one of those "I wanna do this before I'm 30" things for a while. I'd gotten a direct mail piece back in September from the Leukemia/Lymphoma society and I figured... "why not??" Me and my emotional self, I cried when they showed the film on mothers and sisters and best friends that had been faced with all these types of cancers and it made me start to think. First of all, the people I knew that had to take on these illnesses, and secondly, seeing the accomplishment in the eyes of all these people who were just like me and had actually trained and completed 26 miles!!! Again, I cried like a baby! It was pretty much at that point that I realized this was totally something I could and would do. So, I signed up!! Since then (which I think was October something) I've been getting mentally prepared for this run.
The way the program works is awesome. EVERY Saturday we have a group run. That's when everyone in the Nashville area who's participating with TNT gets together and does our distance run for the week. Since the majority of us are amateurs, the mileage is quite small at the moment (I do 2 miles, 2 days a week and 6 miles every Saturday until the end of December), but that number will start to build SHORTLY... all the way to 22 miles the first week of April!!!
So, that's where I'm at. Well, sort of. I'm gonna write a new blog each Sunday... so keep up, dang it!! I think you can subscribe on this thing, so I hope you do. Please ask questions and tell me your stories. I really can't explain how this whole thing feels. It's quite amazing.
Take care and I hope to hear from you soon:)
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