Yes :) I ran it I finished it but thats not all I enjoyed the experience.
Atl. is waddling around like a penguin, I must say I would be papa penguin that rolls over all the time. Athletics were never my thing I hated the first couple weeks of school and I hate the sentence “take off your shoes and socks and go line up outside”. I knew I would be the first from the back which doesnt really make sense because I was a size zero back then.
Okay so now in the future I am not a size zero but I am not first from the back either.
My biggest fear at the start line would be the lone yellow tshirt watching a swarm of people in a distance(thats what usually happens on a normal practice day). My goals for yesterday were to cross the finish line and not to be the last one to cross the finish line.
I made history today and I am so proud of myself it makes me want to do more Nike races and more marathons. During the streets I learnt running as a group of people is sooo much more fun than running alone AND the people who motivate you on the side of the road make you run faster.
Maybe I will be able to run tomorrow maybe I wont then again who cares I finished this bitch.
THANK YOU NIKE AND JOZI. NOt forgetting my pumped kicks!!!
After surviving grade school it seems I have not really ran away from peer pressure even though I am my own person and I am much older. The irony is that it only hits me now that I agreed to run my city even though I know that I was never an athlete. I was always first from the back and avoided it if I could and this is during my size 28 days. Fast track a decade later I willingly sign myself up for a ten kilometre race through jozi maboneng that takes place AT NIGHT.
This above paragraph is all that runs through my mind when I am coming from Zoo lake to the wi(r)ts and I can not feel my legs and I think that I am going to collapse.
On the other side of the coin, when I think about this wonderful experience that is going to show my body flames. I just smile, because this is a once in a lifetime oppurtunity for me that I will one day look back on and think “youre a stoopid hoe”
but you did it anyway and you finished and that is all that counts.
From now onwards there are 14 days and all I am thinking is fuck what did I get myself into…
