Reaching for our Goals

This year is a milestone year for Me personally. I turned 40 years old- actually it is for Josh too :) he turned 21 years old. :) wow, where do the years go?


Well, anyway, Since I started back to running in Malaysia some 6 years ago, I had thought really long and hard about running a marathon. But after thinking about it I just thought, no too much work and not enough benefit. Not long though after I had an injury and couldn't run consistantly I realized there was ALOT of benefit to my running. For one thing, I really did enjoy it and I missed it. * note to everyone- it's not fun starting out and getting through the conditioning part but once past that ... it's GREAT* So I made the decision that when I was healed and able I would love to run a marathon or 1/2 marathon before or on my 40th birthday. That was about 4 years ago. I've tried to get back to running and something in me said, I wasn't going to reach this goal. I had resigned myself to letting it go. BUT then I subscribed to Runners world and decided, I could still accomplish my goal. I started training and thought - I should run a 10 k to test the waters. My training was going well and it was all me. I had the date of the 10k planned to be there:) my hubby went and cheered me on :) .. that was such a wonderful feeling, and I finished 4th. :) I felt GREAT! Then another health issue and things took a turn backwards. Now almost a year later, I'm back on the training mode. I am going to accomplish this goal and I have decided each Sunday I would post on my goals for the week. I've been running now for about 3 weeks. I had to take the last 2 weeks off from being sick and having meetings but I'm back in it again.

Starting from scratch is no fun though! It's not enjoyable at ALL....... okay so there are a few moments in every run that I think, Man, I love this, but it fades quickly as the pain of my body screams-STOP THIS MADDNESS! Today- I ran only 2 miles... seems like a long way away form the 16 I need to be able to run. But I am going to persevere and I'm going to accomplish this goal!

For this week coming up I'll be working up to running 30 minutes non stop. I know I can do it but I'm just up to 20 minutes and I'm DYING by the end of my 20 minutes. :) LOL!

So- I'll be increasing my time each day by 2 minutes. By friday I should be up to 30 minutes and then I'll stay there for the following week....

Here's to reaching for your goals!

"The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win."

- Sir Roger Bannister