21 Days
I cannot believe that only three weeks -- 21 days, yikes!! - stand between me and the Rock and Roll Half Marathon. When it was merely a hypothetical, my run buddy cousin, Jenna, and I laughed about just how ludicrous it would be to purposely set out to run 13.1 miles. We thought about how nervous we were before our first run together, Al's Run 2013. We thought about how two Mexican girls who can sparkle with the best of 'em when its 50 degrees would be downright bedazzled after a half marathon. We thought about what else we could do with several hours of our time. Then, however, we continued our trend of running 5Ks together, and our inner tough girls came out. We realized that we could do a half marathon, and we decided we should do it. I cannot wait until that day when I get to hop on a plane with my cousins, my auntie, and my mom, hop off that plane in Vegas, meet up with my husband, and accomplish a goal that I once considered an impossibi...