This is where the real obsession began!
I'd tried a couple of times to run a marathon on my own around our area, but had only made it 16 and 20 miles respectively. By the end of September I felt I was ready to try again.
On the morning of October 1, I headed out. The area we live in is laid out in 1 mile square blocks, so it makes it pretty easy to track your distance.
5 hours and 8 minutes later I put a big fat check mark on one of my lifetime dreams of completing a full marathon!
It really went fairly well too. I didn't experience running into "the wall" that most people talk about. But rather, just kept plugging along till it was finished!
A lot of my friends were amazed that I could do it by myself without the pressure of competition to keep me going.
But I was just getting rolling!
On my next 2 runs I smashed a couple of more PR's again! I ended the month with 6 new PR's including running a half marathon on each of the 4 weekends after the full marathon!
I closed out October with 510 total miles on my charts!
Mission accomplished!
I had never pushed so hard for a goal in my life! I couldn't believe that I had actually run 500 miles in 5 months! That was a huge morale booster!
It also proved to me that I could actually set a goal and be driven to achieve it! Maybe there were some lessons to be learned here!
I'd tried a couple of times to run a marathon on my own around our area, but had only made it 16 and 20 miles respectively. By the end of September I felt I was ready to try again.
On the morning of October 1, I headed out. The area we live in is laid out in 1 mile square blocks, so it makes it pretty easy to track your distance.
5 hours and 8 minutes later I put a big fat check mark on one of my lifetime dreams of completing a full marathon!
It really went fairly well too. I didn't experience running into "the wall" that most people talk about. But rather, just kept plugging along till it was finished!
A lot of my friends were amazed that I could do it by myself without the pressure of competition to keep me going.
But I was just getting rolling!
On my next 2 runs I smashed a couple of more PR's again! I ended the month with 6 new PR's including running a half marathon on each of the 4 weekends after the full marathon!
I closed out October with 510 total miles on my charts!
Mission accomplished!
I had never pushed so hard for a goal in my life! I couldn't believe that I had actually run 500 miles in 5 months! That was a huge morale booster!
It also proved to me that I could actually set a goal and be driven to achieve it! Maybe there were some lessons to be learned here!
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