How Come Halfway Feels So Hard?
I have reached a very important milestone today - I am officially past the halfway mark of both my kilometre tally and my fundraising goal. Training hasn't started for the marathon yet - that will happen on July 20th - but I ran 21.2 K very slowly on Sunday but possibly even more challenging has been raising $3020 so far. Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who has supported me so far. YOU ARE SO AWESOME.
The feeling today is a mixture of gratitude, appreciation, pride and awe at how awesome and generous people have been, but there is also fear and dread mixed in there - like there was at the end of the half-marathon - because halfway means I have to do everything I just did all over again. The thought of walking back to the car after the run on Sunday made me feel a little bit sick and similarly the thought of asking strangers (because I have now officially asked every single person I know for money) for $3000 is a little bit frightening.
Even more important, though, is that I need to make sure my sister gets there too. But we will...just keep plugging away.
