Starting Line

After 5 years of running, I have decided to run a marathon. I am super scared so this is going to be a journey for me.  I’m going to journal it out for you. My hope is this inspires you do something you’re scared to do too. I am slow but I love running. Follow my journey to a marathon where my goal is to finish with in the 7-hour allotted time frame.

I didn't grow up in an active house. Sports weren't even a thing we watched on TV. We played outside and went to beach alot. Did lots of nature walks learning about it, I mean I can tell you lots of local shells and how to identify them. Local birds and how identify them too.

We road bikes around the neighborhood but that was what you did back then to get around. I went to a small private school so they didnt have sports to play. Recess we did play kickball and four square but I was never really good.

Half way through 7ᵗʰ grade my parents got divorced and I was pulled from the small school and started into the public school system. Boy was this a major change for me and one of hardest times in my life. Just think from two kids in my grade to changing classrooms for every subject and hundreds of kids walking the hallways it was so gigantic to me at the time. I was the new kid feeling over whelmed in my new world. Somehow, I survived!

High school was better we were all new as freshman. Still sports were never something that seemed as an option. I actually had to work to buy my lunches at school, pay for the car and insurance on it, and the clothes I wore. I was a latch key kid as they call us. Let’s just say not best up bring. I’m not mad I actually didn’t even realize life could be different.

So, I guess the point in telling you this is that anything is possible even if you have a not-so-great past. If you aren’t an athlete from an early age, you can start now. Your past doesn’t define who you can become. It isn’t easy but it is possible.