I am going to run a marathon.
I wanted to run a marathon because It’s something something I never thought I’d do. Before beginning training I’d never run more then a mile in my entire life. I want to be healthy and I want to make sure I’m living my life to the fullest.
There were people in my life that never had a chance to run a marathon and I want to do it for them. In my sophomore year of college I had two friends from High School die in a car accident. It was incredibly shocking and sudden. Two weeks later I lost a very special family friend, William Heaton to leukemia. He was seven years old. There is not a day I don’t think of him. A few weeks after that I lost another friend, Keely Rose, to cancer just before her 19th birthday. Her mom and I got very close, sitting in the ICU with her. We were both holding her hands as she took her last breath. In that moment everything I thought I knew about the world changed.
Both my Grandmother and my Mother SURVIVED cancer, so compared to what they went through 26.2 miles is nothing.
So I’m going to run a marathon. For Jeff and Kyle. For Will. For Keely. For my Grandma. For my Mom. And for me.
Keep me accountable. If you’d like to go for a run sometime, let me know. I’m still pretty slow.
Kate
1 comment in “My Marathon”
April 16th, 2010 at 15:38
So excited to be a part of the journey! I will make sure you get to the start and finish line and then we will swim in the ocean to celebrate.
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