I am planning on beginning my training for a Half Marathon.
Yup.
13.1 miles.
If you have known me for a while, you know that I am most definitely not a runner, in fact, I loathe it because I am terrible at it.
So why am I going to run 13.1 miles?
Well because I want to do something for myself. I want to be able to make a goal and complete it. I am giving myself the entire next year to do it, but I would like to do it by the end of next semester. I want to one up my brother.... ;)
He ran a half marathon, but the idea that his little sister who can barely run 3 miles is going to run 13.1 is a one up. (better go run a full marathon Matt)
I want to do this because I want to prove myself wrong all these years. I am not a bad runner, just untrained. I am capable of doing anything I want! I am not the one in my family to just watch as my siblings do fun, adventurous things.
my fears.
I'm scared that I will talk myself out of doing this.
I'm scared that I will injure myself because I have no idea what I am doing.
I'm scared of running for a long time all by myself.
I'm scared that I won't be able to do it in less than 4 hours. (like i said, i'm a bad runner)
I'm scared that my family will let me talk myself out of it and won't push me.
I'm scared that I will have to do this alone.
So now that I have those useless fears out of the way, watch out world, here comes me, a girl with a head full of dreams.
My name is Emily Jex.
I am going to run 13.1 miles in 2014.
And I am telling the entire world.
Here I come.
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