Yesterday, I ran in my very first 5K - the San Francisco Mission Rock Run. Running a 5K has been a goal of mine for years. One of those things I was always going to do, but never got around to even training for. Well, this year I was going to do it. Period. Yes, I just barely squeezed it in. But the point is, I did it. I set a goal and I followed thru with it. Follow thru is something I suck at. I’m a great planner but a terrible doer - and my overall longterm goal is to change that - to become someone who does things and doesn’t just sit around planning things. Run the walk, not just think the thought.
Now, I wasn’t the fastest and I wasn’t the slowest, barely… I finished ahead of one person, a gentleman who was probably in his 70s. And I wasn’t that far ahead of him either. But this wasn’t about speed or even performance as much as finishing something I started. Accomplishing something. Crossing a life-goal off the old bucket list. And that, my friends, makes this little pink participants ribbon totally priceless!
Posted on December 29th, 2008 by firefly
Filed under: daily blathering
Congratulations!
GREAT JOB! I know what you mean about the 70 y/olds out running you but then I think “I want to be them someday”. Anyways - Congratulations to you
Yay for you!! Congrats!