Logging the Miles
January 12, 2012
As I reflect on the past year, I am struck by how appropriate my successful completion of a marathon fits with 2011’s theme.
Although I wanted to run a marathon the year before, I still believed that I couldn’t, I shouldn’t. And I watched others run it and enjoy the exhilaration that comes with personal accomplishment. But the lights came back on for me in 2011. I found my “Runner’s Chi”. And the way I set my goal, juggled the day-to-day demands and put the hard work in was mirrored on almost all fronts of my life. Healing old injuries, testing the limits of my strength, pushing how far I could go. Enduring the pain and mental focus associated with the miles run, I was able to revel in the exhilaration I created for myself crossing the finish line.
I pull all of that with me in to 2012, especially the sentiment “I’ll never do that again.”
