Day 0

Happy Friday everyone.  Day before my 29th birthday and just saw a highly motivational movie called "Running to the Limits".  It takes you through a two year period of a man named Alex Vero and his trials and tribulations into becoming an elite distance runner.

Alex is well overweight when he begins the documentary in 2006 and hopes to be able to run sub 2:20 in the 2008 London Marathon.  Through his journey he meets several amazing runners including an Ethiopian runner named Mengsitu Abebe.  After realizing that Alex can only take his body to a certain extreme, the story begins to turn into a tale of hope for Mengsitu.  As is the case of many Ethiopian's, Mengsitu is extremely poor and is attempting to raise money to care for his family.  Alex's focus in his documentary turns to helping Mengsitu become an international runner while still developing his own running.  I will not ruin the entire story for you but I would suggest checking out the movie. 

This is the type of story that keeps me motivated and pushing.  Alex had no business in 2006 to think he could run sub 2:20 but he still dreamed the near impossible.  The times that he was able to achieve shows that when hard work and motivation meet, they are tough to destroy.

After a very trying and difficult weekend two weeks ago, I'm more motivated than ever to get going again.  What was suppose to be my reward in New York turned into a huge challenge in New Hampshire.  2:39 faded somewhere between miles 15 and 20 and turned quickly to 2:46.  A tough course but there are no excuses.  I call this entry Day 0 because tomorrow I will get back on that marathon train.  I will commit myself to training to an extreme few have every experienced.  Thousands of miles will be run and in the end I will run with a purpose for 26 miles 385 yards.