Episode 40
Welcome to the Healing Pod!
Jessica is busy fighting with her still leaking roof, so I am joined once again by Kasie!
Today is the end of a long week with a lot of heartache. So we decided to talk about a lighter topic and explore our decision to run a half-marathon! 8 years after the only other one we ran…and then deciding a week ago to run one a month and a half before the planned Disney run!
We talk through our history of running, and the surprises we find of the motivation and the impact on our self-talk and value by achieving these goals.
Things like setting habits and building our pups’ health into the training, finding reasons to run, places we enjoy going, and support through each other and our friends has helped exponentially. Building a new habit is hard, and it has to fit into your view of yourself and your schedule to have a chance of sticking.
Facing hard goals means you need a lot of support, internal and external. It is going to be hard. It is going to hurt at times. It is going to be less fun at times. But it’s it’s always hard, always hurting, always less fun, you will not stick with it. You want to be able to move and grow through the discomfort to find a brand new level of discomfort to challenge yourself with.
Who knows, maybe we will do a marathon someday. But not anytime soon. We are going to bask in the enjoyment of succeeding and being amazed at what we’ve been able to do.
Kasie does mention the headspace I go into on race days. It is different. Running has always been the thing that I could actually take a break from all my other stress and do. I could not deal with anything else while running, so I may as well just run. And on practice days I pace with Kasie and if we’re not going hard I chat with her. But when racing, I find a rhythm and I just stick with it and see how far I can go at that pace, because I don’t trust myself to keep moving if I try to poke out of that flow space.
I am incredible proud of Kasie and everything she has accomplished. I love the adventures we find in our lives and cannot wait until the next one.
So we would love to hear your goals and progress towards them. We would love to hear whatever ideas you have to keep us motivated and entertained for winter runs. We would love to hear from you!
As always, thank you to the wonderful Miki Anderson for our intro and outtro music. She can be found under Pax Minerva on Apple Music and is all around a wonderful human being.
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