I am finding out some very cool things about my body and running. My fear about running was that I would be running along and my blood sugars would drop dangerously low and I would be unprepared to handle that situation with a snack or something and then I would be hospitalized and die....or something like that.
I know--fear is not a reason not to do something and I was determined to face my fear head on and not hide from it anymore. I was also noticing my waistline was not getting any smaller and my thighs and hips weren't either; in fact, they were going very quickly in the other direction.
So, the first thing I did before starting my running was to tell my friends and neighbors and DOCTOR that I wanted to run a marathon. I checked books out of the library about running. I read all the books about running marathons--well, actually I only read two books. One was about Extreme Marathoners and the other one was Jeff Galloway's "Marathon, You Can Do It."
I read "Marathon, You Can Do It" first and then when I got an infection in my foot, I had more time to read the other about the Extreme Marathoner--Dave or Dan Kankarezes or something like that. Actually I just looked his name up and I was wrong on both counts he is actually called : Dean Karnazes and he is the 2009 UltraMarathon Man. You can read about him here .
Jeff Galloway got me running--he just told me I could do it and I believed him.
The thing telling everyone did for me was make me actually get off my butt and do it. How could I go back after not completing something I had told everyone I wanted to do and then have to backtrack and say it was too hard? I like my credibility too much for that and I have my pride to consider also. It won't let me say I will do something and then not do it. I will look bad.
I guess I was afraid more of looking bad than whether I would go low and DIE!
