Starting Over
This blog has technically existed since 2016. And I blogged semi-regularly for a while, through 2017, stopping right before I ran a half-marathon. I picked it back up in 2019, after I'd ran my first marathon and was training for my second. And then I just stopped. I started running because of a fear that I had. I was afraid that my chronic knee and back injuries were going to leave me unable to walk without aid, like I was told they would back in April 2007. They had given me ten years before I'd need permanent aid, so I started running because I refused to admit defeat. And I did. In April 2017, instead of picking out a cool cane to walk with, I crossed the finish line of the Oklahoma City Memorial Half-Marathon, almost twenty minutes faster than I thought I would. I was ecstatic and determined to run a full marathon the following year. I completed the 2018 marathon and set my sights on continuing to run marathons. But I didn't do it the right way. I didn't train prop...