Are you in this 1% of people?

Did you know that less than 1% of the population does it?

Run a marathon, that is.

I guess you've got to ask yourself, 'why?' They've got to be mad after all.

This weekend more than 1100 of those mad people lined up in Canberra to have a go at running the 42.195 km beast (that's 26 miles for you Imperialists).

Rob and I were out there volunteering at the 5km drink station then at the finish line catching the wobblers and removing timing chips.

It was really a beautiful site (I don't mean the wobblers, or the pukers, or the smelly sweaty bodies - and we had all of that!) I mean it was a beautiful site to see so many people of all shapes, sizes, ages undertaking a mammoth task like running the
marathon.

The wheelie guy - how tough is it to push yourself 42.195km using just your arms?Ouch!

What's beautiful about it is that for someone who has never run the distance before, it takes an enormous leap of faith and courage to undertake something that at first seems incredibly daunting.

You've got to overcome your own mental hurdles first, well before you lace up your sneakers for your first plod around the block.

Running marathons is about redefining who you are - what you think you can and cannot do.

It's funny listening to people talk about the marathon who have never done it. They almost all say, "I couldn't do that...I'm too short/tall/heavy/lazy/fill-in-the-blank".

Even Rob, when I first met him and I was training for my fourth marathon, said, "I can't do that - I work late and can't get up in the morning."

I just looked at him. The only thing stopping him from tackling an enormous achievement was his own fear. And a crappy excuse.







7am and waiting in the rain for the first runners to arrive at the drink station

I didn't need to say it - I worked long hours too, had a 45 minute drive every morning to Outward Bound, and still managed to get up and run for an hour or so each morning, and three hours on the weekends.

If you want something, and believe you can do it, then you just do. You find a way around the time, the body, and any other limitation your fears might chuck at you.

And I was certainly not built for it either: short at 5foot 4inches, round and solid with more than my fair share of boob, I'm built like a bellydancer, not a runner. And I've run 6 full marathons.








Rob has since run three marathons! No more excuses. He set out to discover what he was made of, and came up trumps. That's what you get for living with a success coach ;)

Just like the 1100 other folks trudging it through the pouring rain this weekend. As they shuffled across the finish, they stepped in to a new version of themselves: a version that says 'I can'.



The rain let up and gave us a real show - spectacular rainbow over the national Parliament

And I've just completed my own mini-marathon.

I've taken everything I've learned about the Law of Attraction, marathoning, and changing beliefs and shaped it in to self-study course called the Three Pillars of Personal Power.

And here it is, just for you, to help you bust your own limiting beliefs to get to that start line, whether it is in business, or in life, and say, "I can", "I am", "I will", and "I'm doing it"!

Check it out here.



Have a good one,

Zoe