SIXTEEN MILES

In late 2020, I began training in the hopes of running my first marathon. I’d run a half marathon a few years prior and decided to go for the big one. It was both exciting and intimidating. I’d run several 5k’s (3.1 miles) and even more10k’s (6.2). Training for the half marathon (13.1 miles) was a leap. It was a solid two hours of running without a break, so to double that for the full marathon (a whopping 26.2 miles), knowing I’d be running for about four hours straight, felt huge. There was a part of me which didn’t know if I could do it, yet another part of me knew I had to try.