When I first started to run it certainly was never in my thought process that I would EVER try a marathon. Who does that? Crazy people! Even though one of the very first books that I read was "Running With Angels", by Pam Hansen who I found great strength from reading her book. It is a story of an overweight lady who is determined to run a marathon and her year long journey of training to make it happen and her weight loss in the process. Me even reading the book was somewhat of an accident. I had a good friend who told me about a book that she ran across that is great motivation for losing weight. She also told me that it was kind of neat to read because it was a lady that she served a mission with years ago and asked if I would like to read it. I said yes, only due to the losing weight factor, but at no point thought that I would ever desire to run a marathon.
One of the things that Pam Hansen suggested was reading a book called the Non Runners Marathon Trainer. I decided to read it just to get some tips for completing my mini-TRI, which seemed like a marathon to me. An amazing thing happened as I picked up that book and turned the pages. Somewhere in the back of my mind came this teeny-tiny desire and belief that I could actually set my goals for a marathon. I pushed it away and continued to read the book just for the positive mental training and running tips. It wasn't too long after that when I was doing a training run with my "partner" Amanda that she said, "I would like to run a marathon someday Mom, we should do it together." I laughed, she looked at me and said, "I am not kidding". It was then that I made that fatal mistake of agreeing to do that with her someday. I even went so far (feeling a little confident from reading again) that I thought we could do it before she graduated from high school. Who knew 4 years would fly by so quickly?
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