Confirmation

It's late. yea, I know.
I got the marathon confirmation thingie the other day.
See where it says 26.2 miles. Damn right. 26.2, and not a step further.

I said before that the marathon seems so small from a distance, but when it gets closer it begins to look bigger. I'm not sure that's quite right. The marathon stays the same. 26.2. The perspective of the task changes, like holding your thumb in front of your eye to blot out the sun. The sun isn't that small.

The trick is to prepare to be bigger than the race. The work that gets put in doesn't make the race smaller, or control the steady approach that seems to gather speed the closer it comes. The work that's put in makes you bigger. Not physically, but mentally and in unseen ways. You grow. You have to, because the marathon is pretty big. You may never get bigger than the race--it is pretty big--but you can grow enough to manage the struggle.

I guess that's how it is for most endurance events. And what's life but an endurance event?

Event Confirmation
	BIB - 5728 Name - Joseph Breda Race - Chevron Houston Marathon -- 26.2 miles Start Line Corral - Back *for more information see below Age on Race Day - 30 Sex - Male Wheelchair Participant - No