This is a way overdue post but it needed to be written, or at least advertised on here. It started off small. Simple training with random runs, for the pure enjoyment of running. The runs started to increase in distance form a simple 5km to a 7km to a 10km. Until finally a 10km was able to be run in a great time. My mother and I decided to enter the 10km whitby run. I was shocked she wanted to enter, but I could not of been more proud. We woke up early headed to the race, my palms sweaty and I could tell my mom was getting excited comparing herself to others. In constant runner talk the whole way, both mental prepartion as well as the phsyciall a nice warm up jog, of course my lovely "i need to use the bathroom" 3 minutes before race start. Typical me and my small bladder. But then we waited at the line, chatting and explaining to my mom what was going to happen and reminding her how fantastic she is going to do. The gun went and off we went. I felt so alive, so free and loved every step of that run. Once I crossed the finished line I then waited for my mom to come in, I knew crossing that finish line for her would be beyond incredible. And so she came. Her grin from ear to ear, as the crowd cheered and my father and I screaming beyond belief. It was in that time that I could not of been more proud of my mother. Even though I crossed the line already recieved my medal etc, this was not about me, it wasnt about anything I completed that day. It was about her. She walked that 10km the faster I had ever seen a women of an older age go. From that moment forward she had now become a runner, she had it in her all along the passion the determination and now she had a race on her belt. Anything was possible.
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Running
This is a way overdue post but it needed to be written, or at least advertised on here. It started off small. Simple training with random runs, for the pure enjoyment of running. The runs started to increase in distance form a simple 5km to a 7km to a 10km. Until finally a 10km was able to be run in a great time. My mother and I decided to enter the 10km whitby run. I was shocked she wanted to enter, but I could not of been more proud. We woke up early headed to the race, my palms sweaty and I could tell my mom was getting excited comparing herself to others. In constant runner talk the whole way, both mental prepartion as well as the phsyciall a nice warm up jog, of course my lovely "i need to use the bathroom" 3 minutes before race start. Typical me and my small bladder. But then we waited at the line, chatting and explaining to my mom what was going to happen and reminding her how fantastic she is going to do. The gun went and off we went. I felt so alive, so free and loved every step of that run. Once I crossed the finished line I then waited for my mom to come in, I knew crossing that finish line for her would be beyond incredible. And so she came. Her grin from ear to ear, as the crowd cheered and my father and I screaming beyond belief. It was in that time that I could not of been more proud of my mother. Even though I crossed the line already recieved my medal etc, this was not about me, it wasnt about anything I completed that day. It was about her. She walked that 10km the faster I had ever seen a women of an older age go. From that moment forward she had now become a runner, she had it in her all along the passion the determination and now she had a race on her belt. Anything was possible.
The Start To It All
The first one. The start to everything, a new birth not only for me but for this blogsite. I have never ever done anything like this before, well sort of. I wrote a random few one time, just never got around to actually posting things. I thought it was about time I finally acted upon the things I say I am going to do, therefore here we are creating that once in a lifetime blog. I must say I didn't do it alone, I was defintly inspired. Not only by other people who also engage in these blogs but by the power words can have. This blog will hopefully contain my life, the good and the bad. The adventures that I travel upon and the trouble in which I get into. It will contain those pictures that mean a thousand words and those thousand words that would better be described by a picture. So the time is now, the blog has began, engage with me in my dreams, hopes, wishes and life as we all know how hardcore this rollercoaster we call life can be.
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