As I was trotting away this morning on the treadmill I had a bit of what you might call a revelation.\u00a0 Normally I tend to think of a revelation as a positive thought, but not so today.\u00a0 What was this revelation?\u00a0 Well, it was something like this\u2026 \u201cWhat in the world am I doing???\u201d\u00a0 I mean seriously.\u00a0 When you get right down to it, what is the point of this endless running?\u00a0 I was watching the people all around me, lost in their own i-Pod worlds, eyes glazed over, kind of staring off into space or half way trying to follow the ticker on CNN or Fox News, and I had this passing thought that this is all a bit silly when you get right down to it.\u00a0 And as my minutes ticked by I thought some more and was attempting to justify to myself why a person might choose to get on the treadmill day after day.\u00a0 Now it is quite obvious that no one is forced to participate in these sorts of activities (the mindless running) so what is the motivation?\u00a0 Well, I don\u2019t know about the other people, but these are the reasons that I came up with to justify my mindless running.<\/p>\n
To begin with, I am the mother of three young children, the youngest of whom is seventeen months old.\u00a0 Some people I know have a baby and somehow, 2 weeks later, they are buttoning up their pre-pregnancy pants and saying how hard that was to gain all that weight.\u00a0 I am not one of those people.\u00a0 I have to put real effort into fitting back into those pants.\u00a0 Running is the quickest way I have found to lose weight effectively enough to once again wear said pants.\u00a0 That said, if nothing else, this training will guarantee that I will lose weight.\u00a0 Maybe enough that I will see the numbers on the scale drop to levels I haven\u2019t seen since getting pregnant with baby #1 more than seven years ago.\u00a0 A person can be hopeful, right?<\/p>\n
The other thought that I had was that this will score me another trip to Walt Disney World.\u00a0 Let\u2019s face it, if you are reading this you are probably a pretty big fan of the number one mouse and aren\u2019t we all trying to figure out a way to make another pilgrimage to our favorite Mouse House?\u00a0 The super cool bonus of all this running is the image that I carry every time I run\u2026 running through Cinderella\u2019s castle!\u00a0 That is what I am running for, to see the castle in the distance and to run through it with all the characters standing around cheering.\u00a0 I get almost giddy with the thought of it.\u00a0 Too bad it is the 5.5 mile mark of the race.\u00a0 What else am I going to think about once I pass that point? \u00a0Probably the Princess medal, that is a pretty cool thought too.<\/p>\n
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The last justification that I came up with this morning was that I want to be able to tell people that I ran a \u00bd marathon.\u00a0 Pure and simple bragging rights that I ran it and no one can take that away from me.\u00a0 When people hear that I am running the Princess \u00bd marathon at Disney World they all smile and say that they have never heard of it, but if anyone was going to do it, that it would be me.<\/p>\n
So with all that said, I will continue on.\u00a0 The miles are only going to get longer from here on out, but I am up for it.\u00a0 I won\u2019t let myself down!<\/p>\n
Smiles-<\/p>\n
Bridget (who is learning to be a runner)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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