If you ain't first you're last. That makes no sense at all!

As of yesterday, I am officially training for the Disney Princess Half Marathon.  Still not fast enough, and a little bit sore after my first thirty minute training run, but as Lao Tzu supposedly said, “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” 

Or, to borrow from Butch Jones, I’m gonna build this program brick by sparkly, princessy brick.

It’s a relief to have a specific program to follow rather than having to motivate myself to run just for the sake of running.  I’m not a very entrepreneurial person (at least that’s what I always list as a weakness on performance reviews) but tell me something that needs to get done and it will be done.

We’re not all cut out to be leaders, and it took me a long time to come to peace with that.  I felt that as a fairly intelligent and ambitious person, I should seek out leadership roles.  But I don’t like “leading” people.  And I really don’t like “disciplining” people (unless I gave birth to them).  But “fairly intelligent” and “ambitious” don’t always equal “leader.”  Also, if everybody leads, then who follows?

In my very first post I wrote about coming in last place in a race my friend Becky “ran” (aka walked).  I’m so thankful that we were able to laugh about it, particularly when the really old lady passed us with about half a mile to go.  Oh, and also when the police car followed us the last quarter mile or so when we were obviously the only ones still on the course.  I'm not afraid of coming in last because I've already done so, and it wasn't the worst thing in the world.  We even laugh about it.

How many people don’t even run in the race because they are terrified of coming in last? 

Of course, later on in the movie Reese Bobby tells his grown son:

“Hell, Ricky, I was high when I said that!  That makes no sense at all!"

When first told about my half marathon goal, Jay immediately suggested that I could win the race and seemed a little disappointed in my settling for simply finishing.  I adore his optimism, it has encouraged (and will continue to encourage) me for the next few months.  But finishing is enough.