Just keep walking

Endurance- the fact or power of enduring an unpleasant or difficult process or situation without giving way.

That pretty much sums it up. Endurance is kind of like patience, you have to work at it. All the time! 

I love being outside. I even love walking for the first 15 minutes. But then it gets hard. I don't mind a challenge normally, I love challenges in my professional life. But when a challenge involves sweating... my enthusiasm seems to go out the window. It really sucks that the only way to improve is to keep going. I wonder how far off we are from being able to shove a probe in the back of our skulls matrix style so we no longer have to be bothered by the tedium of learning new things.

One can dream.

It begins

So how do you start your marathon training when you can't actually run? Answer. Slowly.

 Going by my wog today I believe I actually jog slower than I walk. I did not know that was possible but I swear it's happening. I could only do 3 sets of 30 second jogging. I had to recover for several minutes in between since apparently I don't know how to breathe when I jog.

 I have also noticed that people give you the strangest looks when you are a fatty attempting to jog. I never noticed it when I was out walking but once I started to jog they looked at me with sad eyes. Ugh! Don't give me sad eyes. Yes I'm fat, yes it's hot and humid outside and I look like I'm about to have a stroke, but I assure you this will not break me. I've been through worse things than a 30 second jog.

 I came back home pretty bummed. I wanted to have this great post about how I felt inspired and more motivated than ever to accomplish my goals, but in truth I walked in my door got ice cream out of my freezer and sat on my couch. Ice cream cools you down, so it's kind of the same thing as doing a cool down right?

 Tomorrow will be better. I'm going to try for 4 sets of 30 seconds.

Marathon smarathon

 I have decided my new mission in life is to complete the Hawaiian Marathon. My plan is to register for the 2015 race. This will give me a year and three months to get ready. It shouldn't be too bad I have already mastered the art of carbo loading and I can stretch like a pro. I am well versed in muscle massage techniques and not to brag but I own a variety of icey hot products. So the only thing left to do is learn to run and maybe lose half of my body weight.

  I can currently jog for about 30 seconds before I feel like passing out. I can wog (walk/jog) at a 23 minute mile pace. I have never run a mile straight in my life. So why the Hawaiian Marathon?

 I have always wanted to run a marathon. I have talked about it for years. In fact I talked about it so much that I helped to inspire a few friends to get in shape and run marathons. Jerks. I just can't seem to do it myself. I choose Hawaii because it is absolutely gorgeous there and the date of the race is around my birthday so I figure it will be a great way to end a year and bring in a new one. I have no desire to try to "place" in this race, which is good because there is no way I could. I just want to finish. I don't care if the officials have long since gone home and I crawl my way over the finish line I just want to know that I can do it.

 I'm going to blog about my training to keep myself on track. I always start my grand ideas in secret so that when I fail I don't have to admit it to anyone. I think I plan on failing from the beginning so I don't get as upset when it happens. So this time it will be different. I will put it all out there my triumphs and my failures. Perhaps by doing it this way I will actually follow through this time.