To Marathon or Not to Marathon?

That is the question. And it has been burning on my mind A LOT lately!

Last year (and I speak in terms of running seasons, the new one is quickly approaching, so my "last year" means like five months ago), I ran a half marathon. By no means when I finished did these words cross my mind, "you know, I think I could go ahead and run that entire course again. Right now, in fact!"

So why am thinking I can do a full marathon? Not really sure why. I just know that running races is addictive and I want more. I also know that at one point in my life I would like to have accomplished running a marathon. I know that the older I get the harder it will be to accomplish this goal.

Here's the original thought that got this whole seed planted in my head so soon. My brother, Brad, is a big marathon runner and is the one that inspired me in the first place. But this year he is running the Houston marathon in hopes to qualify for the Boston marathon (he has come close before without even trying). His wife, Jennifer, is running her first half marathon at the same time in the Houston marathon. And I thought how cool would it be if I ran my first marathon during the same race???

Then I found out the Houston marathon sold out within 24-hours!!! They luckily signed up on that day, but didn't send me the memo. They honestly never dreamed it would sell out that quickly. Plus, I still haven't made up my mind 100% that I am going to do it yet, so I wouldn't have probably signed up anyways.

I have already signed up for the San Antonio Rock N' Roll half marathon that is going to be on November 15th. But I still have this thought in my head, maybe I should still run a full marathon, just in another city. I COULD run the Austin marathon in February.

I did go for a run today for the first time with Stephanie (which was awesome because we have the same running styles and pace). And she is contemplating the same thing, whether or not to run a full marathon. She is also running the San Antonio Rock N' Roll. We talked about it nearly our entire run. Still didn't make any progress on a decision though.

I am kinda thinking that I have just gone crazy thinking I can run a marathon. What would possess me to do that? I barely trained enough for the half I ran this past year. Could I really be disciplined enough to correctly train for a full marathon? Maybe I'm having a quarter-life crisis, cause thinking about me running that far is hillarious to me! And I am the one running it! AAARRRRGGGHHHH.

Any thoughts???