Why I Am Really Running

So, I realized that I haven't actually said the reason why I am running this marathon and making this blog. Lots of people run marathons for charity and to raise money or awareness for some great cause...but not me (I would love to one day run a marathon for a charity and raise money, but not this time). I am running this marathon to say that I have run a marathon. See, I am a person who gets really fixated on something and then does that one thing a lot for a while, but then finds something else to fixate on and loses interest in the previous fixation.

For example, I LOVE the Dark Knight Trilogy. Absolutely love it. I think that Christopher Nolan is a genious and I would love to get the chance to one day meet him. Anyway, so when the Dark Knight Rises came out, I got all hard core and bought a book about the making of the Dark Knight Trilogy and I read a ton of articles about the movies and I watched lots of interviews with the cast and crew. I have honestly seen each of the three movies probably 10 times each, since the Dark Knight Rises came out in July of 2012. So, after a few months of being really into the Dark Knight Rises, I got on this Daniel Day-Lewis kick. I went on a netflix spree watching Daniel Day-Lewis movies, read tons of articles, watched interviews, and learned a ton about Daniel Day-Lewis. Anyway...this seems to be a pattern with me (especially with movies/actors, but with other aspects of my life as well. For example, my greek yogurt smoothie spree, nutella, Mumford and Sons, and the list goes on). I will be really interested in something for a few months, but then find something else to be really interested in. It's not that I lose interest in the previous interest, it's just that I want to learn so much about the new thing that I put the old thing on the shelf and leave it there for a while. It's like when you are a kid and you get a new toy. You play with it a lot, but then your grandma buys you a new awesome toy, so you put your old one in the toy box and spend all your time with your new one. You still love your old toy and cherish the memories you have with it, you even bring it out and play with it occasionally, but that new toy is just so great that you need to spend time with it (hopefully that all made sense).

The point I'm trying to make is that I struggle to commit to things for a long time, and I don't want running to become an "old toy" that I do for a while but then put on my shelf and move on to something new. I want it to be a part of me, something that I can't live without. So, I am determined to train for and run this marathon, and to make running a part of me. For this purpose I have started this blog. To allow myself to talk about my experiences and to motivate me to stick with it.

That's why I am running a marathon and that's why I am writing this blog.

Keep Calm and MarathOn