Thoughts on Marathons

For those of you who don't know today was the 39th annual running of the Houston Marathon and Half Marathon.  The event annually attracts approximately 22,000 runners from across the world.  Today a second time marathon runner from Ethiopia ran the full 26.2 miles in 2 hours and 7 minutes.  That is an average mile pace of just under 5 minutes.  Talk about endurance and running for the long haul.  I for one cannot run.  I am saying that I cannot run.  I physically think that running is something my body was not meant to do.  But that doesn't mean I haven't completed my fair share of "marathons".  After all I have 2 children.  9 months of pregnancy followed by 3 months of not being able to sleep through the night is definitely a marathon.  Most of us don't like marathons while we are in training and we may even not like the running but we relish in the end.  My father-in-law, who was a runner, was heard often to say the greatest thing about running is stopping.  The greatest thing about our life marathons is surviving. But you know what I notice about runners(even those who love stopping), they always start again...and so do we.  Are you running a marathon right now?  If so, know that sooner or later there is a finish line and that sooner or later you are going to want to run again!  So just keep moving...!