Two weeks ago
I ran a 13.1 mile race delightfully called a Diva Half Marathon. It was not my
first time. My first half was in Greenville, SC in 2011.
After having
Hollie in 2008, I went back to running in an attempt to lose the baby weight.
When the first 30 pounds came off but nothing else did, I thought adding
mileage was the way to shed more weight.
What’s
amazing to me is not that I was able to log the training hours or that I
completed the race, but that the motivation for taking on such a thing was so
ridiculously naïve.
Running to
lose weight will not take you 13.1 miles.
There must
be some other motivation. Some other voice in your head daring you to see if
you can actually achieve such a thing. The miles are just too long and the
effort just too hard to rely on the calorie burn as motivation.
