Day 5 Week 2

Today is a rest day. Oddly enough sometime during the day yesterday after I worked out and stretched out, my calf muscle tightened up. I will be working on getting that stretched out and read more about running marathons. Last night I read a pretty inspiring story about a kid who was paralyzed from the neck down, and within a couple of years he was able to walk. Then he decided to take a marathon class. He went and asked the teacher if he could train. Before that point he had only walked with a cane, however he decided to walk from the handicapped spot into the building without his cane-it took him about 20 minutes. The teacher told him to build up his endurance to 30 minutes of walking. His goal was to walk in a 10K. By the middle of the semester he was walking 7 miles-10K is 6.2. So they decided to increase his goal to 10 Miles. Then he decided on his own to increase his goal to a half marathon-13.1 miles. Every one told him no, he should just stick with the ten mile goal. The night before the race this kid changed his mind and decided to do 15 miles. The day of the race he started at the 11 mile marker with 15 miles to go. He walked on through. He finished the race after all of the water stops were closed up and traffic was on the road again. He was hobbling along- dehydrated and dedicated. He finished after-I think 9 hours. If he can I can and so can you!