Letter #2

Dear Friend,
My family and I have had our ups and downs. The biggest turning point in my life with my family was. When I told my parents I wanted to run my first marathon. I wasn’t very active and I was a little bit overweight. My mom and dad both jumped at me and shot me down. My mom was worried for my health and my dad just didn’t think I’d have the motivation and determination to finish it. In some ways this just made me strive harder and harder to reach this goal. I really learned to turn everyone’s’ discouraging attitude towards me and use it towards reaching my goal. One of the hardest things in my life was trying to gain my parents support on the marathon. A huge turning point in my running career was when I came home from a 16-mile run, and told my parents I hadn’t stopped once. My mom couldn’t believe that I had actually done it and both of my parents started to support me, and believe in me.


Along with my parents discouraging words, two of my friends had led me to believe they were signing up for the marathon. When in all reality I was the only one who did sign up. As the marathon went on I began to believe that I was running it for myself but I was also running it to prove to everyone else I wasn’t going to give up like all my friends did.


When I finally made it all 26.2 miles and I had finally crossed my finish line, it was such and infinite feeling. I felt as if the world was before me and anything I put my mind to I could accomplish. If you ever want to feel accomplished spend 6 months training and run your first marathon, it was the best experience I have had in my life. And the only way I could ever describe the feeling of being infinite is at the finish line of me marathon.


Sincerely,


Joseph