14 Miles....More than Half Way to a Marathon....

This week brought a mini milestone...my 14 mile run, which is over halfway the length of a marathon. (26.2 miles) The last 2 miles, I did think it was a possibility that I would keel over on the side of the road from exhaustion. However, as I approached my house I realized that I had, somehow, triumphed over the shin splints and hip pain, and found a way to push through and finish.

When my husband looked at me with "the look" (a combination of worry and thinking that I am borderline insane), I knew I must have looked bad. "Do you think you could get out and run 10 more miles right now?" He asked. "No", I said, "but in another 12 weeks, I will be ready, and I will finish". He smiled in support.

Mini milestones happen in everyones life from time to time, and I am about to hit another one. On Wednesday, I will be 27 years old. That sounds old to me. Twenty-seven...27....2 and 7 together. That seems like an age of a fun aunt, or a fun new teacher...not the age of a woman who is still going to school, still likes her hip hugging jeans and shiny lip gloss, keeps in contact with all of her friends from high school, still reads Cosmo and Glamor like its the Bible, and is training to run in a marathon. But, then again...I am an aunt (proudly became one for the first time this December), a wife, a mother of 2 little girls; I knit, I sew, I cook, I kiss bo-bo's, I pay bills, I have stretch marks....(this is said in a school girl voice)I am like, totally....an adult and stuff. I realize...this Marathon isn't just a goal for me, its my mini life crisis of sorts. A grasp at the straws of my youth perhaps.

So......here is the weekly mileage report on the "Crisis" to mark this Sunday....

Monday: 4 miles
Tuesday: cross training...bike for 9.5 miles.
Wednesday: 6.06 Miles
Thursday: 4.04 Miles
Friday: Off
Saturday: 14.14 Miles
Sunday: 6.06 Miles
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Total Miles Ran this Week: 34. 30 miles
Total Miles Suggested per Matrix: 32 Miles