So a little over a year ago, I did an obstacle race with some girls at work, the Rocklin Ramble. It was silly, and fun, and wet and I even ran a little. So what, right? Fun day, sunshine, girl time, yay Lisa. But after, my mind, being what it is, thought the running wasn’t so bad. Oh yeah, there was the fact that I’d run in the past with bad results. I have a prosthetic leg and running about near killed my stump (there were tears folks, pain and frustration). But I got it in my head that I walk pretty fast, so hey, maybe I could walk an event. 5k seemed like nothing, 10k, not much better…oh yeah, so I’ll just do a half marathon. I throw it out on Facebook, asking my running friends if I’ll be mocked for walking a half. They assure me no, go for it. Fast forward two weeks…no I did not stutter…and I’m at the start of the Avenue of the Vines Half Marathon in Lodi. By then, I’d managed to lay out a good amount of money because, of course, you have to have all the right gear, and have to look cute…duh. Gun goes off and so do I, running at first because I still worried about looking like a dork, but quickly settling into my fast walk. I know its fast (or fast enough) because my new fancy Garmin multi-sport watch tells me so. I manage to keep a decent pace all the way through and run into the finish because, again, the dork factor. It was AWESOME! Endurance events suck me in so I knew there’d be more, and there were, one a month the rest of 2015. But for that day, my achievement dial was way, way up. AND, major bonus, my foot didn’t really hurt – ok maybe a little, but it passed. Looking back, I’m reminded that some of my greatest joys come from not overthinking, from acting spontaneously and just going for it. If I planned for that race too much, got too much in my head, I probably wouldn’t have had as much fun. Definitely need to dial more not overthinking in, all part of that just start thing.