So you read that correctly, I turned 40 recently. On that day to celebrate, I ran my 1st marathon. Technically, I ran it before I turned 40 since I finished before my birth time!
My journey to the marathon was not easy. Actually, the marathon itself wasn't exactly easy either. In 12 months, I went from running 5k to completing a marathon and it was all because of cancer, my dad's cancer.
I've written before about my want/need to run away from the whole situation. I call it the summer of suck but it started back in March of 2018 really. I wanted to be a good person and stay at a job that I felt called to do but completely burned out on. They say when the holy spirit is speaking to you, it will move anything and everything to get you to listen. I never listen in a timely manner!
I wonder what I would be doing had I listen when everything started to turn. What if I had stepped away when I first felt it instead of fighting the current? No one can say for sure, but I'm pretty sure that I would not be on this side of 40 as a marathoner.
I could make the long list of clues but it is a pretty painful and personal list. I will say that I have lost a lot since March 2018. I lost a lot of sleep. I cried a lot of tears. I swallowed my pride a lot. I nearly blew up my marriage. I blew up my career. I faced the possible loss of my dad and my youngest daughter.
I'll be writing a post on lessons learned along the 26.2 miles of the Wayne's World marathon. But for those of you who have been reading this barely legible scribble for the last 10 years, I figured you would at least like to know that I did, in fact, accomplish my goal to finish a marathon before I turned 40!
My journey to the marathon was not easy. Actually, the marathon itself wasn't exactly easy either. In 12 months, I went from running 5k to completing a marathon and it was all because of cancer, my dad's cancer.
I've written before about my want/need to run away from the whole situation. I call it the summer of suck but it started back in March of 2018 really. I wanted to be a good person and stay at a job that I felt called to do but completely burned out on. They say when the holy spirit is speaking to you, it will move anything and everything to get you to listen. I never listen in a timely manner!
I wonder what I would be doing had I listen when everything started to turn. What if I had stepped away when I first felt it instead of fighting the current? No one can say for sure, but I'm pretty sure that I would not be on this side of 40 as a marathoner.
I could make the long list of clues but it is a pretty painful and personal list. I will say that I have lost a lot since March 2018. I lost a lot of sleep. I cried a lot of tears. I swallowed my pride a lot. I nearly blew up my marriage. I blew up my career. I faced the possible loss of my dad and my youngest daughter.
I'll be writing a post on lessons learned along the 26.2 miles of the Wayne's World marathon. But for those of you who have been reading this barely legible scribble for the last 10 years, I figured you would at least like to know that I did, in fact, accomplish my goal to finish a marathon before I turned 40!
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