I'm Not Like You People. I'm Not Normal-26 days!

Buster Martin 101 | 'How To Live Forever' from Mark S. Wexler on Vimeo.

When you start running, people of all walks of life start talking to you about running. How they can't run. How they ran one time. How running hurts, it's boring, they can't run a mile much less 26.2.

I love this video because it shows the sea of humanity that is going to be running the NYC Marathon. I do think that anyone can run a marathon. I have built up very slowly over the last year to this mileage and gotten my body ready for this endurance at this pace and level. But, people walk/run these things! And amazingness happens when you say yes to hard things in your life. And follow through on the challenge.

26 days! 

30 Days of Training left!

"I think I bit off more than I could chew, I thought the marathon would be easier. For the level of condition that I have now, that was without a doubt the hardest physical thing I have ever done." -Lance Armstrong, after finishing the New York City

Training for this race has been long, tough and at times boring and disheartening. The last week of running has been Really hard to get through. But I have a focus. Less than a month until the race! I'm telling myself, "don't hit that snooze button. Get up." Every dang day. This is what it has looked like for the last three months. Now we are in the final one!

I've totally look at my shadow all the time. Run in the rain, run in the dark. Run sad. Run mad. Run happy. Just run.
This video resonates.

I have a race to run.

 
Mind Games - directed by Casey Neistat from Nike Sportswear on Vimeo.