IronJourney

Running has been going really well, in fact it has been absolutely amazing. I am embracing it every time. This was never the case before. I started running in 2007 when I completed my first sprint triathlon.  I learned to run.  I liked it...sometimes ….not really...well actually I hated it.  But I could do the distance and was satisfied with that. I stuck with it through blood, sweat and tears waiting for that moment of self actualization in the run, that thing that other runners seem to have or at least that is what I think they have. They seem to like it even when it gets hard. They keep going back but seem to not suffer like I did. They didn’t have demons. They seemed happy running. I must be missing something.  I have demons, I suffered. So being the stubborn person I was, I stuck with it and like a dysfunctional lover tried over and over to fix it.  I ramped up the mileage, claimed running as a small piece of my identity and ran 3 marathons, ...