Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Kaddi's Shoes
These are my shoes. They are my running shoes, at least that is how they were labeled at the runner's store. Yes, they have been running shoes, but they have also been walking shoes, jogging shoes, and tennis shoes. Sadly, none of these quite describe what they have been in the past several months: space shoes. This means that their only current purpose is to take up "space" in my closet. I have felt quite guilty about this for some time now, especially since I belong to a gym and our winter was not the only excuse for my laziness.
Although this guilt has been building and festering, it hasn't been enough to get me up and out of my bed at 5:30 am. Yes - 5:30 AM is the only time I can exercise. Last year when I joined the gym I did quite well at getting up this early. Mainly due to Shane's taunting if I didn't get up. If the alarm went off and I failed to rise he would make some comment like, "what happened, did the power go out and the alarm not go off?" To make the sarcasm cease I got up. (Unfortunatey this did not make Shane end his sacrasm in every other area of our lives, I'm still working on that one.) Once I stopped working out the sarcastic comments returned but they've had no affect on a sleeping Kaddi. I was as lazy as the days of summer. Yada, Yada, Yada fall came I got busy, Yada, Yada, Yada, here we are.
Here comes the point of my tale. Everyday I pick Jake up from elementary and take him to the Middle School for math and on my way for the past two weeks I see this banner. It's for the Utah Valley Marathon/half marathon. For those of you who do not know I have wanted to run a marathon for some time now and have yet to even come close. So, I've decided to split the difference and run a half marathon. Maybe if I can finish it then I can move on to the "real thing". So, I registered for the 13.1 miles of pain. I can't wait.
The purpose of this post is to hopefully give me the jump start I need to train. I figured that if I put my goal out there, into the cosmos where family and friends know then maybe I will feel more of an urgency to train, even if it has to be at the crack of dawn. If I fail and lay in bed day after day hitting the snooze button it can only be due to the lack of support and encouragement from those I care about. Seriously, I reasoned that if others knew my goal then that would give me the incentive I needed to train and finish my goal.
If there are any friends or family out there who will be in provo June 12th, run with me. It's "Pain YOU ENJOY."
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