This Saturday was the third official TEAM training for my road to the Denver marathon. I'm finding training much more difficult than in seasons past. Having a young baby and trying to fit in marathon training is not the easiest thing by any means. Add onto that the "baby weight" that I'm trying to shed and my speed is certainly not what it was last year. That's OK though. The cause is plenty to keep me motivated. Every Saturday morning, before we head out for our run, we do something called a "Mission Moment". It's usually led by someone who is telling their story about their battle with cancer, or perhaps that of a close friend or family members. Hearing about the struggles of battling such a horrible disease really puts the run ahead of me into perspective. I mean, I've got the easy part. The brave individuals who are battling their illness day in and day out are what I call the real marathoners. One of my favorite sayings that I've heard during a mission moment and seen on a few TNT t-shirts now is "Think a marathon is hard? Try chemo". And, that, my friends is all I need to remember that I can do this. I can do the training and the fundraising because it's not as hard as what some friends and family members of my own have had to deal with in battling a blood cancer.
Just keep on keepin' on.
Taylor
