January is almost over.... and I have yet to post to this blog stating any kind of progress. I have decided to run in the Illinois Marathon as part of my training. I don't plan on doing well in the race, but I am hoping to experiment with "hitting the wall" and food choices the day before and during the race. Well, I prattle on.
I have set up my donation site for the Young Survival Coalition and I am really excited for this year. I want to think about hope this year. The first year was about fighting breast cancer. The second year was about celebration. I hope for a better future for women facing breast cancer.
I want to share that hope with other people. At the Men Against Breast Cancer caregivers conference someone said that "hope is like a country road, it doesn't exist until people travel down it." Every year I begin this journey to train for the Chicago Marathon and every year I build that hope and find out new ways to share the reason I want to hold on everyday even when it is hard. Maybe that is why the marathon really represents the new life that breast cancer has laid out before me. I can run, but it stays with me, everyday is a reminder, it is that choice to finish. It is that effort toward the finish that matters, you may run until you cannot any more, then you walk, crawl if you have to, but finish none the less. Holding on to the hope is what keeps it alive. I have to quote the cartoon Futurama: "You can't give up hope just because it is hopeless, you have to hope even more and cover your ears and go 'BLAH, LA, LA, LA!!!' " --Fry. I guess I would rather hold on to hope without giving in, even if there is no reason to. Hope is where you find it.
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