I've always heard about this extreme euphoric feeling and an overwhelming sense of accomplishment you get after completing your first marathon. I want in!
I am a first time marathon runner who is fascinated with the Iron Man Triathlon. I would love to be able to participate and complete it some day. I have completed a 100+ mile bicycle ride on a few occasions through the MS Bike Tour. I figure that if I could complete a marathon, I could build on my hopes and dreams of completing an Iron Man length triathlon, not to mention a life-time achievement.
I think a combination of things inspired me to run my first marathon. I started as a casual runner in high school. I always loved running for some reason. I moved to Chicago from New Orleans in 1989 and started doing 5ks, 10ks and half marathons. It became a hobby and also part of my travels. Any time I traveled I wanted to lace up my running shoes so I could ran the streets in the city or country I was visiting.
In Nov. 1996 I bought a condo and during the move in/move out process, I started talking with a runner who was helping the sellers move their items out. We exchanged numbers, kept in touch and I started running marathons. It was something I always wanted to do, but this chance meeting seemed to get be going… plus I was not getting any younger.
I felt great after I completed my first marathon. I was also disappointed the build-up to race day was over. Training, and nutrition became the focal point of my life and it was an awesome feeling. I miss it every season that I don't train – running a marathon it is truly a life changing for so many reasons.
I thrive on challenges! A personal directive is to do my best and give my best to all my endeavors. I have a healthy level of self-confidence, yet how strong can you really know you are unless you put yourself up against an arduous task? I get high off knowing that I've succeeded in whatever I've set out to do. A challenge junkie, I want to stay high all the time!!
As a young boy I remember older church members start a testimony by thanking God for waking them up in their right mind and for the activity of their limbs. I always thought that that was an odd way of expressing oneself. Since then, I have become a physician. Specifically, I am a hospitalist. I take care of many people with dementia and/or stroke. I understand why they said what they said. I run because I can. It is a way of thanking God for waking me up in my right mind and with the activity of my limbs.
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I am a first time marathon runner who is fascinated with the Iron Man Triathlon. I would love to be able to participate and complete it some day. I have completed a 100+ mile bicycle ride on a few occasions through the MS Bike Tour. I figure that if I could complete a marathon, I could build on my hopes and dreams of completing an Iron Man length triathlon, not to mention a life-time achievement.
ReplyDeleteI think a combination of things inspired me to run my first marathon. I started as a casual runner in high school. I always loved running for some reason. I moved to Chicago from New Orleans in 1989 and started doing 5ks, 10ks and half marathons. It became a hobby and also part of my travels. Any time I traveled I wanted to lace up my running shoes so I could ran the streets in the city or country I was visiting.
ReplyDeleteIn Nov. 1996 I bought a condo and during the move in/move out process, I started talking with a runner who was helping the sellers move their items out. We exchanged numbers, kept in touch and I started running marathons. It was something I always wanted to do, but this chance meeting seemed to get be going… plus I was not getting any younger.
I felt great after I completed my first marathon. I was also disappointed the build-up to race day was over. Training, and nutrition became the focal point of my life and it was an awesome feeling. I miss it every season that I don't train – running a marathon it is truly a life changing for so many reasons.
I thrive on challenges! A personal directive is to do my best and give my best to all my endeavors. I have a healthy level of self-confidence, yet how strong can you really know you are unless you put yourself up against an arduous task? I get high off knowing that I've succeeded in whatever I've set out to do.
ReplyDeleteA challenge junkie, I want to stay high all the time!!
As a young boy I remember older church members start a testimony by thanking God for waking them up in their right mind and for the activity of their limbs. I always thought that that was an odd way of expressing oneself. Since then, I have become a physician. Specifically, I am a hospitalist. I take care of many people with dementia and/or stroke. I understand why they said what they said. I run because I can. It is a way of thanking God for waking me up in my right mind and with the activity of my limbs.
ReplyDeleteSiana, here are links to running routes (with mapped distances) in and around Charlotte.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.tricharlotte.com/running_routes/running_routes.htm
http://www.charmeck.nc.us/Departments/Park+and+Rec/Greenways/Home.htm