Happy New Year Runner's!!!!

A New Year and another chance for us to get it right - OPRAH

Why is it that when a new year rolls around it offers us a clean slate, or it feels that way anyway?  It's as if one day erases to a certain degree a year of laughter and tears and provides an entirely new foundation for more laughter and tears, but different one's because it's a new year.  It's as though we all decide to have new plans, new emotions, new trips and a whole lot of newness, but why?  Why can't we just keep it the same and let a new year roll in just as the other one leaves.  There is all this pressure to have resolutions and plans and this pressure we often put onto ourselves, but why?  I think Oprah said it best so I am just going to steal her words directly, because it's another chance for us to get it right,that's why.

So what does all this newness have to do with you as a runner?  Everything!  It is another shot for you to get it right.  It is another shot for you to figure out what you are truly capable of because last year you know in your heart you just didn't quit push as hard as you could have.  It's another chance to sign up for that San Diego Marathon and qualify for the Boston this time darn it!  It's another chance for you to sign up for a 5k and run it this time because you know you can and you have stopped telling yourself that you can't.  It's another chance to lace up those new running shoes and make it to the top of that hill running this time, NO WALKING!  It's another chance for you to get your running right, to get your running back, to start, to do it the right way this time, to start walking and get off of the couch, to just say "I am a runner."  We are all runner's you know, some of us are in training and some of us are not, but we are all runner's.

Let's get it right this year and every year after that :)

Happy New Year Runner's!

- Coach Timmie