My Second Post and a Little More About ME!

So, I left off yesterday having completed my first 10k. My thought process at that time was...
If I spend a year at 10k and get comfortable here ... then I'll consider doing more... After all, I'd spent about a year at 5k. My last 5k of that first summer remains my Personal Best (PB)...

However, a number of the marathoners came back from Ottawa, I overheard them talking and there was just a certain something about what they had to say. I thought... gee... I could do that. Run Ottawa, the Marathon, in my hometown, on my birthday!

I had until then been wavering. My friend Rosina (we met in the 10k training and ran the same pace) was doing a Team in Training event in Iceland. She wanted me to train for the half with her. I wanted to get stronger and more confident at 10k.

Well, the words of those marathoners took hold. I soon agreed to join Rosina in summer training ... and it was a hot humid summer to train! She headed off to do her event. I headed off to do mine: the Half Marathon in Montreal.

My mother walked and I "ran". For the record, Mom was only 20 minutes behind my "running" pace.

I had missed a few weeks of training, my grandmother had passed away, work, and a race that was 5 weeks earlier than the training group had planned. I did face a few challenges along the way. However, the feeling of doing the final loop on the oval in Montreal was incredible! I never had imagined myself as an ATHLETE! I am old enough to vaguely remember the Olympics in Montreal. What a thrill to finish inside the big O!

I still hadn't shared my plan of doing the marathon. I guess I wasn't sure that I could pull it off. Or perhaps I wanted to test my body with longer distances first.....

The fall of 2005, I completed: Montreal, Toronto, Niagara Half Marathons...

I started thinking that maybe this running thing wasn't so crazy after all. Maybe doing a marathon was attainable....

stay tuned for more.....