Commitment

The title of this post is the big “C” word. It scares me. I’m not good at it. I don’t know how to do it. I’m constantly running from it.

Because of this, I decided that I’m going to do something about my commitment phobia. It’s a big decision, and I think it’s only a big decision because I suck at decision making and commitments. So, I’ve made a decision. I’ve made a commitment.

I’m going to do 100 Days of… Running.

Yeah. Your mind is blown, isn’t it? Like, seriously blown.

Running.

100 days of it.

The things that have brought this decision on… well, they’re complicated things. It starts with feelings and ends with logistics. Or maybe, it ends with feelings and starts with logistics. Either way… there is both an emotional and logical push towards this decision, and it’s just starting to make sense.

So, sometime next week (I still haven’t pinned down a starting point yet — possibly on Monday), I’m starting my 100 days of running. The way this works out is pretty nice because somewhere around the end of the 100 days, there is a 5K happening at my school. Whoa. I’m still deciding whether or not I want to participate in the race, but it would be pretty cool to do 100 days and then BAM, race.

I’m still working it all out in my brain, and I really need to put everything down on paper. That’s the goal for this week: get the logistics down. Find a good start-up running plan, a good route (possibly just the perimeter of the school?), encouragement things (dry erase board, HUGE wall calendar, etc.), and possibly a running mate. We’ll see what happens with those things.

I’ll post more when I figure these things out. No later than Friday.

 

Now I have to go write an 8 page paper. See ya!