Nervous!

I'm really nervous about training for this half marathon. The first training day is tomorrow. I keep getting butterflies in my stomach when I think about it. I know it is going to be a rough the first month or so as my body gets acclimated to running outside in this hot weather. Today I am going to make sure that I drink LOTS of water and get to bed early in preparation for tomorrow night.

People keep asking me why I am doing this and the only reason I can give is that it has been a goal of mine. I've been setting goals for myself since middle school. I remember the first one that I set was to get straight A's in 8th grade. I did it and it felt really good. When I was younger I also had a bad habit of chewing my nails. That was the next goal I set for myself. I was successful and grew beautiful nails, which I had long dreamed of. Throughout college my goals were just to finish my degrees. I ended up with two associate degrees in the field of computer information, a degree in business and I'll finish my master's Nov. 28. Another goal I had set for myself was to buy a house, I did that last October. I kept thinking about what i was going to do after my master's degree. I had though about going for the doctorate, but it just seems pointless. It really won't help me getter a better job in my field, in fact, it might overqualify me. So this half-marathon is my next goal.

Actually I will accomplish my half marathon goal before I finish my degree, but this is only a stepping stone for me. This year I plan to run and walk in the half. I will continue training and I want to run the whole thing next year. That's 13.1 miles of straight running!!! I'll see what happens after that, but I might see about a full marathon (26 miles). Of course, I will have to start that with a walk/run and then train for a couple of years to run the whole thing. AHHH...that scares me. I am going to try to just focus on the half for now. Actually even that is overwhelming. I will just focus on my 2 mile training run on Tuesday for now. One day at a time!!

On the side, my mom had a garage sale this weekend and what fun! I made $120.00 and my parents made over $500.00. Quite impressive! That was Saturday morning and I had to leave for a while to go to the half-marathon meeting at Wesselman Park. I was up at 4:30am to help with the sale. Then afterwards I got cleaned up and went to the 5:30 service at church, then to dinner with some girls from my small group. After dinner we went out for a couple of drinks. I try to stay away from bars, but I knew it would be okay since I would be with good people who don't get wild and crazy. We had a nice time and I was at home and in bed by 12:00.

Nathan came in town Sunday and we had dinner at the Black Buggy. He didn't get too stay long, but it was good to see him.