Welcome to my running journal. It's o.k. go ahead and keep reading. It's obvious that I want you to. Why else would I create this blog? I thought it would be a good idea to write down my running life for my friends and family to read. I don't think I'm special for loving running. Millions of people all over the world love it with me. There is something about it that draws people in. I have enjoyed the activity of running for more then 5 years now. I call it an activity, because I never felt like it was exercising. I never made running a chore or a way to lose weight. I just purely enjoyed it. I started with just a few miles whenever I got the urge to lace up my Nike's and year after year my running improved.
Like many people I have a bucket list. Here are a few of the BIG things on my list: travel Europe for a Summer, own a dog, get married, be a mother, and last, but not least... run a Full Marathon. I've been slowing working up to the last one on the list my doing smaller races: two 5k races, a warrior dash (great fun) and two Half-Marathons. All those races were quite lovely. I trained for the two halves, and found that I rather enjoyed myself while doing so. I loved the freedom I felt on a run. It cleared my head of any stress or negative thoughts I may have had that day. I also fell in love with the feeling I got after a long run (5 mile or more). You get this sort of high from it. It's called endorphins. Often called a "runners high" It's a happy chemical drug that your body produces when you are pushing yourself to your physical limits.
I run the Big Sur International Marathon along with hundreds of other runners on May 1st. It's going to be the most incredible experience in my running life thus far. I signed up last year and knew exactly how many months I would need to train. I began in January. I wanted 4 months to get ready because I knew that it was going to be a little bit of a nerve racking training. Normally things like this don't phase me, but let me explain... First is the fact that this is my first marathon ( I already think I may like to do more) and I've never trained for such a long run before, I wasn't sure how I would handle it( I'm handling it quite well, thank you), Second of all I have a lot going on in my life right now. I work full time in a city I must commute and hour each way to and I'm enrolled in full time School. I don't know why I thought it wise to train for a marathon right in the middle of one of the busiest 6 months of my life, but I did, so here I am with this blog about my running,which is yet another commitment I have made. Oh, well. I think this will be therapeutic.
I will wrap this up. So January was a great month for training, I was on schedule, did all my runs. Recorded them and maybe I will post that later. February came along and I started school and my training really suffered. I didn't get back on track till last week in February. I had to join a gym for my early morning and late night runs. It got a little chilly. About a week and a half ago I found a great training program online and I've been trying to stick by it as best as possible. I have smaller runs during the week and on Saturdays I do my long runs. On the 26th of February was an 11 miler and this last Saturday was an 17 mile run. I will be writing about all my Saturday runs and only if my mid week runs are really interesting will I write any thing about them. Keep an eye out for my next two posts which will be about my 11 miles and my 17 miles.
Until then my friends
Enjoy!
Shawnna Law
