This post on Zen Habits says positive public pressure is a good motivator – so I admit: I’m training for the 2009 NYC Marathon.
A Marathon in Nov of 2009 might be a long way off, but I’m the least sporty person of anyone I know, this decision to run 25 miles all at once isn’t easy. Pulling off a Marathon will be an unbelievable accomplishment for me, and trying to reach there will be even tougher.
I want to run the Marathon because I’m turning 25. My quarter-life-crisis screams two opposing views, that life has been difficult and I have successfully survived puberty with a bachelor’s diploma in hand, and that I have accomplished nothing – nothing that moved me and changed me and conquered my presumptions.
I’m not sure if I’m a product of triumph or failure, and what priorities mean to me. Running probably won’t help me solve this on-going identity crisis, but at least it’s something to do. Life happens.
Before I turn 25, there are many things I need to do, one of them is running the marathon.
I am going to run about 2-3 miles per day for 3 weeks straight, giving myself only 2 days of rest per week max. After that, I’ll update with another post. Running 2 miles per day is no easy task for me, it is extremely difficult to accomplish, perhaps more mental than physical. We’ll see.
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