Rethink I can’t when you see this picture

I’m counting down the weeks until my first marathon. I’m trying to stay on track with my training inspite of work and recently achieved my first 16 mile run. And then I got sick. A terrible hacking cough for over two weeks. As a result, I’ve been wondering how I am going to get through this marathon in one piece and how much it is going to hurt when I got done :), but one thing I know is I’m going to finish it.

However, I’ve been saying “Oh, I’ll be walking a good portion of it because I can’t run it all.” That’s true, but why not push myself a little harder to run more of the race? Why not change my attitude and have the goal of running at least a little bit of every mile instead of race walking the whole thing? After all I was able to do run/race walk during my first 16-miler, and I survived it (even felt good enough to run a 13:33 pace during Mile 14).

 

I’m going to take my own advice. I’m going to rethink “how” I think about what I can and can’t do, especially as I make life goals.

Rock on Juan Jose…you’re an amazing person!