Fit Chick in the City » Dreams http://fitchickinthecity.com Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:15:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Shaking http://fitchickinthecity.com/2009/08/24/shaking/ http://fitchickinthecity.com/2009/08/24/shaking/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:23:50 +0000 Jess http://fitchickinthecity.com/2009/08/24/shaking/ Thank you for all your comments today. If you haven’t weighed in on my question, I’d love to hear your opinion. I really love hearing what you guys have to say.

I’m happy to report that I returned home blister free from my long run this morning. Told you I’m bad @$$! I am so happy that my run was today instead of Sunday. The weather was perfect! However, I do think that I have to rethink running long on Mondays because my legs were not happy about teaching BOSU boot camp tonight.

Anyhow, I’m here tonight to tell you that I’m shaking a little inside. The thought of this makes me nervous. The desire to be there fills my stomach with butterflies. The fear of failure hangs over my head… yet, I run with hope.

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All this just to attempt to BQ this fall.

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A Day in Boston Re-cap
Friday, I arrived in Boston around 12:30. The HLS cocktail party wasn’t until 7 p.m. giving me time to explore the city. The weather was perfect and I enjoyed a little alone time doing what one would expect of me. I hit up this store:

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and stopped by Niketown:
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and lastly this store:
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I couldn’t help myself so, I brought these home:
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Along the way, I found something that I often only see in my dreams. The Boston Marathon Finish Line.
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That’s when it hit. I’ve thought about training to qualify for this race since I ran my first marathon 10 years ago. I really have to do this (or at least make an honest attempt). This year I’ve talked about it quite a bit. I’ve even began training, even though I haven’t signed up for a qualifying race. Its time to bite the bullet and sign up for a race. I can’t fear failure anymore. I have to put this goal out in the world and do my best at making my dream a reality.
I hope to be back on that Bolt Bus to Boston come April 2010, but this time carrying tons of running gear. There, I’ve said it out loud to the blogosphere and that makes it even scarier.
What goal have you set for yourself in the past but have been afraid to commit to? Maybe its time to make that dream a reality or to whisper it out loud for someone else to hear.
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