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Hello! This is a blog that i'm going to write so that i can stay sane over the next year while i'm in training. Here's the deal.....i hate to run. I have never liked to run, ever, in my entire life. I've always loathed running. I hate the way it makes your legs hurt, the way you cannot breathe, and the way that after a nice long run your eyes burn from all the sweat. But this summer something happend to me....


All summer i worked at a camp in the Poconos mountains on the east coast. Now the thing is, at camp there is no cable, no radio, and no town really. You work about 16 hours a day with random little hour breaks in between. So this summer while i was stranded in the mountains and i needed a break from screaming campers, i ran. I ran through the mountain trails and woods, i ran along dirt roads, and i ran up and down the winding roads. I ran to get away from the stress of work, i ran so that i could have my own thoughts, and i ran because that was the only time i could call my own. And after all that running, 2 or 3 times a day, in 100 degree heat and in thunderstorms and floods, something happend. I got in shape.
Now, i've always been an athlete playing a different sport every season, but i'd never been in really serious amazing shape before. My newfound runner's breath and endurance was shocking to me.
So now here i am, at the end of my Junior Year field hockey season, and i don't want to lose what i have. I don't want to lose this endurance or invincibility. Now, i have a good 3 monthes until i start my spring lacrosse season so i have been looking for something to ignite me and inspire me to stay in shape. I found my answer a few days ago while looking around the internet...
In April my whole field hockey team is running in the Spirit of St.Louis half-marathon as a bonding activity. It has always been a goal of mine to run a marathon before i die so i went on-line to research the Chicago marathon for next year. I figured that when the Chicago marathon takes place Next October that will give me incentive to stay in shape after the half-marathon in April. So this blog is going to help me vent my frustration and anger at running and help me track my overall progress. I guess we'll see what happens!