It's a shock to me too!

Well, I did it. No, not the "it" you may be thinking. I did not run away from home, leave my husband or get a tattoo. Actually what I did would probably not be a big deal to most people, but to me it was huge.
I registered for my first ever half marathon that will take place in December. Not a big deal to some, but the world to me. I'm certainly not delusional enough to even pretend that I could do a marathon. Hell, a half marathon sounds absurd when I say it to myself, much less to anyone else. I am not a runner. I am not an athlete. I've never been coordinated enough for aerobics and I'm pretty much too lazy to do anything that requires too much physical exertion.
I've run a couple of miles a few times when I was in an exercising kind of phase, but the last time that I actually ran and exercised with any sort of commitment was exactly 13 years ago during the summer that I got married. I was 23.
Let's just say that a lot has changed. Perhaps my 30s have opened my eyes to things that I never realized or maybe I'm drawn to the solitude of running that see in so many other people. Mainly what I'm feeling at the moment is that I'm doing doing something that I want to do and I'm doing it only for me. No one asked me, begged me or required me to do it.
Yesterday, I happened to see that someone had posted information about the marathon and that registration was 75% full. I just assumed that maybe, just maybe I can be committed to something, have a real goal, that I can see completed in about five months. I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
It's amazing how people, things, opportunities can come along at just the right time and for amazing reasons when we don't even realize we need them. My thanks to MMJ and EHC for inspiration they have no idea that they gave me. thank you both.