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Hope…run?

The woman who won the Olympic Marathon was 38 years old, the woman who won the New York City Marathon, 37 years old…what that says to me….hope.  Not so much in that I could win a marathon but that in women, as they get older, (and who are we kidding I am getting older!) can still be successful runners.

I started this little running adventure late in the game, 28 isn’t the typical age to take up a sport!   I sat at my computer this morning and watched some you tube footage of the New York  marathon, and then some of some Ironman races and it gives me hope.  People of all ages…big, little, fast and slow come together to finish a race.  I know from my first marathon experience it is harder to get to the start line then it is to get to the finish…injury can plague a person training for that distance.  Finishing a race of that distance is life changing…at least it was for me.  The time to register for Boston is here.  I qualified, I have earned my spot again, however I cannot decide if I am to run it again this year.  Does a person qualify and not run it?  If a friend were to ask me I would say RUN!  The question however lands with me, the time it takes…the long runs through with winter months, the fear…the anticipation, which in the wise words of a dear friend is always worse then what the actual thing your anticipating is….so the question remains…..Boston, to run or not to run?

Get some motivation, watch other runners.  Go to a race and spectate, speak with your friends that run, watch a you tube video, read race recaps…believe in yourself.  Believe that you, just like all other runners have somthing special in them.  Find hope in people.

~Happy Running