If I can do it, anyone can.

I was just reminiscing today about when I first started dabbling in running two and a half years ago. I started with a two-mile loop around the park three times per week, and man, did I think I was fit!! (Sometimes I’d even throw in 20 pushups to boot. Wow, what a beast I was.) If you would have told me that I’d be running TEN times that amount in a week with barely any sweat off my back two years down the road, I would have laughed in your face. People couldn’t possibly run that far. But here I am. Along with 400,000 others. People just like me across the states that finish a marathon every year. So, if you can do a two mile lap three times per week, you can start thinking about finishing your first marathon. Talk about an accomplishment.

While it's really fun to think about how much progress I've seen in my running over the last two years, it's also nice to think about how much running has changed my lifestyle. It's just not possible to stay out drinking till the wee hours of morning and to get in a 10 mile run the next day. So I kicked the drinking habit and little by little developed a healthy lifestyle. Trading in a phenomenally healthy habit for a possibly tragic one. Talk about an accomplishment.