Well on Monday I got the news that I was in fact accepted into the Houston Marathon. I'm anticipating that as the months, weeks and days pass, I will find myself full of excitement and probably on some days full of dread! Today, I'm excited and full of hope. I've decided that I really want to have a daily record of this journey, so those of you that get my blog because you love my cute and sometimes witty stories of my kids, it's not always going to be that. However, just like my life parenting my boys and all that is autism, it's a journey and a struggle that I want to cherish and remember. So today is Day 1 of my Houston Marathon Journey....
My Marathon goal is to complete it in 4hours.
Official Training Begins Sept 12 using the 26Point2 App for iPhone
Day 1
I've been mostly running at night 8-9 PM about 5-6 miles, 5 times a week. I'm trying to log about 25-30 miles a week. I'm a terrible morning runner, my per mile pace is about 30-60 seconds slower. Today I decided I need to slowly start training my body for mornings. Got up at 6:00 am, ate 4 cookies and drank a Diet Coke (what am I, an idiot??---dont' answer that). Ran 4.18 miles, felt sluggish the whole time, but this thought kept creeping into my brain....what if I not only complete my first Marathon, what if I actually meet my goal of a 4 hour finish? That's a good enough time to qualify for Boston!! (THE Marathon!!) Today, I really think I can do it!! But I gotta start getting up early and NOT EAT COOKIES!!
Stats for today:
Distance: 4.18
Pace: 10:42 per mile
Calories Burned: 580
Total for the Week: 19.37
Thought for the Day:
Nothing is Hopeless--If you ask me today if I can go out and run 26.2 miles in under 4 hours, I would tell you NO way!! But this past week I've been studying Jeremiah 18 and I surely don't want to be like the people of Judah in verse 12 "But they will reply, 'it's no use. We will continue with our own plans; each of us will follow the stubbornness of his evil heart'" My lazy heart tells me "why oh why are you doing this silly marathon, what are you trying to prove"...well my joyful heart tells me as does Proverbs 16:3 "Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed." So you can surely see where my heart lies with my Savior and Lord and I have hope that my plans will succed. And if this Marathon isn't part of His plan for me, well then so be it, but for now....I think it is!
Until next time....grace, hope, peace, love and prayers!
T
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