WHY BLOG ABOUT IT?

Greetings,

I started this blog before I told anyone that I was planning to train for a marathon. I intended for it to be just an online journal for myself, just to jot down a few goals and milestones during my journey through training. I started to tell people about my new goal around about the third entry. After telling them, I kept getting asked the same series of questions of why, when, for what, for who, and "Are you crazy?!"

So, I decided to let people in on my blogspot, so you can take a glimpse into my journey whenever you feel like it. So, you can read all about the whys and whens, my plans, my goals, and in the future, how I'm progressing and/or struggling.

You already know that I am not a runner, but I should tell you that I'm closer to being a runner than I am to being a blogger. I've seen people run before, almost everyday actually. I've even experienced running myself on more than one occasion, to say the least. And although I've read a blog or two while perusing the web, I've never met a blogger or seen blogging in action.

I had no clue how hard it be for me: blogging. My entry on July 1st, which was literally my first blog, took about an hour and a half for me to publish. The trouble wasn't with finding a blog-space to blog on, or even setting up an account on blogger.com. That part took all of a few minutes to accomplish. The problem was treating this blog like a blog, and not like a dissertation. I'm a bit of a perfectionist when it comes to writing, always double checking my grammar and sentence structure, and triple checking my syntax and fluidity. But I have a life; I don't have time to spend two hours on each blog. The whole point is to blurt out whatever idea comes to mind, and try to convey it coherently. So that's what I've been attempting to do, but in 30 minutes or less.

On that note, this is getting a bit lengthy. To be continued....




Feeling refreshed from a great yoga class tonight,

Almost Thirty