"She was never quite ready. But she was brave. And the universe listens to brave." Rebecca Ray

     For a few years now I've been trying to get through the lottery to enter the bucket-list Big Sur International Marathon in Monterey, California.  I finally did it!  I should be ecstatic, but instead am worried.  It is a gorgeous course running along the California coast, but it is reputed to be extremely difficult with a strict time limit, high winds, and 2000 feet elevation gain and loss, and I wonder if I'm getting too old. And then there is having to catch a bus to the start at 3:30 am for an hour bus ride, and then a long wait for the buses to get off the course.
     But I did it....I completed the entry forms!  I have 8 months until April 29, 2018 to get fitter and try to get speedier.

(Psyching myself up)

Aging is not a disease that needs to be cured.  it's an opportunity that needs to be seized.
                                Marc Middleton

Life shrinks or expands in proportions to one's courage.
                                Anais Nin