Week 8- Lost that lovin' feeling...

OK, I haven't exactly lost my love of running, but I am definitely looking for the proverbial light at the end of the  tunnel at this point.  This is the end of week 8, and while I am enjoying the accomplishment of completing the first 8 weeks without  missing so much as one tenth of a mile, I can't exactly bask in the glow yet, but two weeks from today I will be able to cross this little endeavor off my "bucket list!" I am getting excited and even a little nervous about the official running of the marathon, but it is nice to think about all the miles I have already run.  I am feeling a lot more "can" than "can't" at this point...strangely enough this sentence reminds me of a teacher I had in the eighth grade, so I must digress.

At the height of raging hormones in middle school, we had this lovely little Health teacher, who looked as if she was constantly afraid of something and definitely did not look as if she had any experience whatsoever in sex ed, a topic that she was dead set on focusing 99 % of our class time on. I even recall watching in horror as she displayed the ever-popular banana demonstration for us all to see. Well, now that we all have a disturbing mental picture to carry with us, I can get back to my original point...Ms. Sex Ed had this jar or can rather that had a bunch of eyes glued on it (cut from magazines kidnapper-style), she called it....are you ready for this??? her "I" can!  Nice huh? Anytime some poor unsuspecting student would say " I can't," she would make them write down  what they thought they couldn't do and put it in the can, and when they accomplished it they could take it out.

So in a very roundabout what I am trying to say is that I can finally take running a marathon out of my "I can."