Putting One Foot In Front of the Other
As many of you may already know (as if there were many of you to begin with), I recently put a stake in the ground, proclaiming that I have registered for this year's Des Moines Dam-to-Dam 20k road race. When I posted this information on "The Devil's Social Networking Site", there were many that assumed (falsely) that I had been doing some semblance of running for some time. Well, no. I suppose I need to explain my rationale a bit. I think we all reach a breaking point with ourselves, whether it be from bad habits, how we feel, how we look, something. It varies with everyone. No doubt, there is a certain threshold out there that when we cross it, intuitively our brains say that it's time for action. Granted, that action may last all but a week. But the trigger was pulled. Maybe it just resets that threshold at some higher tolerance level, to be hit somewhere down the line. Sometimes this trigger can be another look in the mirror, or maybe something worse, like an