So I made two big decisions...to walk a half marathon in June and walk a full marathon in October. I now know where my focus will be for 2013...and as scared as I am...there is great excitement as well. This commitment is going to require me to be disciplined in many different aspects of my life - nutrition, hydration, glucose control, strength training, endurance training, and work/life balance. All pretty important things...and having harped for years about needing to do all of them...this is my last ditch attempt to truly do it. I will have to do these things to get something I want. I want to walk 26 miles. I will have to do it within 7 hours. I have not ever had to confront my Type 1 Diabetes to get something I really wanted. Actually, if I did, I would just avoid it altogether by deciding it wasn't really something that I wanted in the first place. Not this time.
This time, the fear is my fuel. My original walking goal for this year was to walk 10 miles. I'm already walking 7 miles...talk about aiming low!! I have thought about walking a marathon for many, many years. So much so, that it made on my short list of life goals. Every time I would tell someone about it, it would be my Type 1 Diabetes that was my excuse for not doing it. As my walks started to get longer and longer...I decided it wasn't so impossible. Maybe this was exactly what I needed to do...to go after something that I see my health as a barrier too. So, I am chipping away at it...one mile at a time. It is happening. I am going to walk 26 miles.
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