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Although this will be my third marathon, it will be the first one ever where I am aiming for a pace.\u00a0 For you marathoners out there, you know how tricky that can be.\u00a0 A lot can happen in 26.2 miles.\u00a0 My goal for Sunday is to find the 3:35 pace group and hang with them for the first 13-18 miles depending on how I feel.\u00a0 That way I will not have to worry about looking at my watch and psyching myself out every two minutes.\u00a0 I can just listen to my music, take in the scenery and get in the zone.\u00a0 Miles 18-26 will be where I need to dig in and bring it home. It is still very surreal to me that this could potentially happen.\u00a0 Could I really be a Boston qualifying caliber of a runner?\u00a0 You have to understand, that the majority of my athletic life I have been good at many things, but not great at anything.\u00a0 It always kind of stuck with me on the soccer field,\u00a0 race track and cross country course that I was just mediocre. \u00a0 “Some people are born with talent and some aren’t, at least I am out here”- that is what I would tell myself.\u00a0 You know what I have realized?\u00a0 It was never that I was not great, I just never tried hard enough.\u00a0 Plain and simple.\u00a0 I was comfortable being mediocre.\u00a0 Being mediocre doesn’t hurt.\u00a0 Nobody expects anything of you.\u00a0 Nobody depends on you.\u00a0 It is safe. Go ahead and roll your eyes when I say this but…Crossfit taught me that this way of thinking was pretty much crap.\u00a0 I THOUGHT I worked hard in the gym…I am a runner!\u00a0 I have done Ironmans! Of course I work hard!\u00a0 Maybe to the un-trained eye I work hard, but you see there was all this un-tapped potential that I never even knew I had. \u00a0 Crossfit taught me that when I dabble outside my comfort zone, I am capable of some pretty awesome things.\u00a0 I have been running since I was 13….yet in this past year alone I literally PR’ed in every single race.\u00a0 EVERY SINGLE ONE! It blew my mind every time, for 3 of them I was the overall female winner…what?\u00a0 It was kind of uncomfortable at first,\u00a0 I mean a PR is awesome but winning?\u00a0 I don’t win races, I am mediocre.\u00a0 Not anymore. Most of us will say we want to be great at something.\u00a0 Most of us will envy those with “talent”.\u00a0 The truth is anybody can be great, you just have to try.\u00a0 Are you willing to push your limits?\u00a0 Are you willing to fall on your face and get back up?\u00a0 If you don’t want to put in the work to be great, you simply don’t want it bad enough.\u00a0 I cannot express how thankful I am for all the support in my journey to be a Boston Hopeful.\u00a0 Whether or not I make my goal on Sunday, I can say I tried.\u00a0 I can say that put myself on the line\u00a0 and went after this thing called “great”.\u00a0\u00a0 If nothing else, I hope that this journey of mine has inspired some of you to get after something you always dreamed of, but never thought possible.\u00a0 To realize YOUR true potential in running, in life, in work whatever. \u00a0 If one of you felt that way, well then I consider this journey a success already. Stay blessed in the mess \ud83d\ude42 P.s\u00a0 to go along with this post, if you need an extra kick in the butt…watch this:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WTFnmsCnr6g<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blessedinthemess.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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