Regret

Today was the marathon.  I didn’t run it.  If you hadn’t heard I dropped out about 5 weeks ago during an 18 mile training run.  I have several excuses: my ankles hurt, my hips hurt, my knees hurt, I kept getting sick, people kept telling me that the ING Georgia Marathon was a hard first marathon, etc.  Truth be told, most of these problems would probably go away if I would lose about 30 more pounds.

Do I regret dropping out?  Yes and no.  Yes, because I still really want to run a marathon and cross it off the “bucket list”.  No, because it was cold, windy, and nasty weather today.  I kept checking the time all morning and thinking, “At this point I would be about x miles”.  I wish I had made it but I have not given up.  I still plan to run a marathon and I plan to start working on losing those pesky 30 pounds… tomorrow!