And...break!

The family and I had a wonderful Christmas, as you should be able to tell from our pleasant picture, and my general state of shortness within it.

I'd felt rather slumped these past few days, as I tried to tell myself to relax and unwind and enjoy the break. The problem with me as, in so much that I really enjoy having "down" times of the day everyday, and balance, I am not too sure that I really like extended breaks, and I am quite sure that this is okay, if my personality tends this way.

So instead of waiting until 2013 to start, I've decided.

Marathon training here I come!

This picture above is somewhat facetious, it being taken during a snowball battle to the death, and not an actual marathon training session (however, I was quite out of breath upon the completion of snowball battling).

But, I am excited to have registered, on this 26th day of December, for the Baltimore Running Festival Marathon on October, 12, 2013. I am even more excited that this is another race to be run with my beautiful friend K, as a sequel to our amazing race journey of October 2011.

I am going to be running for charity: water, because I live in a world where I can get clean water more easily than others, and that is not okay with me. But I am also running for me. Because running makes me stronger, happier, less worried, less stressed, and better able to take on the world. Because running reminds me that I can, even when I think I can't.

I know I run when some others may be cannot, and I do not take that for granted. But primarily, from the joy and purpose I get from it, running is a selfish act for me, and I want to make it an act of as much love as possible this 2013.

So tomorrow, and next week, and the week after that, I'll be running. And then maybe after October 2013, I'll never run again. But this is an important adventure for me, and I am willing to be open to all it will teach me, starting...right...now.