Day 50: #SunriseProject
May 15, 2020
Sunrise: 5:47am
Photo taken from Main Street/Highway 40 in Winter Park, Colorado at 5:41am.
Day 50. Halfway point.
Halfway points are funny things.
I ran a marathon once. One of my friends asked me if I was going to run the second half of the marathon faster than the first.
My reply: “Nope.”
Achieving this task wasn’t even on my radar. It wasn’t something I had trained for, and it seemed ridiculously impossible because I had read so much about “hitting the wall” around Mile 22 so clearly I wasn’t going to hit the halfway point--having already ran 13.1 miles--and then decided that it would be super fun to run the NEXT 13.1 miles FASTER than my first 13.1 miles.
No. No. No.
The second half would be a struggle. A battle of will to finish!
But you know what, it wasn’t a struggle.
I never hit a wall.
And I may have actually enjoyed it.
Surprisingly, I did end up running the second half of that marathon faster than the first.
Somehow it was better.
Which I never expected it to be.
Here’s to the second half...to not hitting a wall...to settling into a groove...and enjoying the journey.
