My Dream

I am not a dreamer by nature. Sadly, practicality and fear get in my way. Interestingly enough; however, I feel like God is really leading me to explore what it feels like to dream. To conquer my practicality, step out and actually start dreaming...But that story is for a post some other day.

Despite spending most of my life w/ goals and not dreams, one dream I have always had is to one day run a marathon. It's always been my "one thing;" my answer when people ask me what my dreams are, what I want to do w/ my life, before I die, etc.

I am registered to run the Chicago marathon in October and my training is well underway. That dream crossed a major milestone this morning when I reached the point in my training where I had to run further than I ever have in my life --14 miles. I've trained for and run 2, 1/2 marathons, but that distance is only 13.1 miles, I'd never run further than that.

The run this morning went great, I still haven't regained my 1/2 marathon speed, but despite that, I felt really good and even felt like I had more gas in the tank that I could have gone a littler further than 14 miles. Plus, burning 1500+ calories before 8:00 a.m. wasn't too shabby either:).

I don't know what prompted the emotion I felt after seeing the 14.00 flash on my watch, but I'm sure it doesn't even compare to how I'll feel upon crosing the finish line in Chicago. Until then, I pray that I won't get injured and stay healthy enough that God will allow me to realize my big dream - - I'm sure that accomplishment will inspire me to develop and foster even more dreams! Until then, I'm closing my eyes--hoping and praying for more big dreams!