I am proud of myself tonight. I think I may have done something I've never done in my life. I ran 5 miles with 1 - 30 second stop to drink. I took over 58 minutes to jog that distance, which make them almost 12-minute miles; BUT ... I RAN five miles. A 10K is only (get this...only) 6.2 miles and I have until July 9th to reach that goal. Last December I would not have believed this was possible. It has only taken 8 weeks, and one of those weeks I did not run.
Why is this important to me and possibly others? It shows that if we set a goal to do something, and get the right training or education for it, and we do not give up on that goal or ourselves, we have a good chance of achieving it. It is funny, as soon as I wrote this paragraph; I remembered that I was talking to someone about this very subject this morning on my ferry ride to Seattle.
We were talking and I mentioned that I decided to learn to play the guitar and was taking the steps needed to do so. I said that I had tried when I was younger but wasn't successful. She asked why and I thought for a minute, said that when I picked up the guitar, I was not successful with it right away, and did not want to take the time needed to learn how to play, so I gave up on the idea. It is (not) so strange that when I have conversations like that, my mind will churn away in the background and let me know many of the times I have given up on something I thought I wanted, because it was too hard.
That brings me back to my concept of Someday is Today, it is a way for me to think of things I have always wanted to do but was afraid to do, or too lazy to do, or too far outside my comfort zone to try, I can write it down and let my mind and the universe work on it and make it a possibility. Part of my Someday is Today philosophy is to think of at least one crazy thing to do each year - and to find a way to do it. Taking up running is this year's crazy thing.
Now off to draw my bath.
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