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No Regerts! Sunday is my first St. Luke’s Half Marathon

No Regerts is an idea that I try to keep in mind throughout my life.

No Regerts! Above you will see a picture of my running clothes for Sunday, April 24th. On Sunday, I will be running in the St. Luke’s Half Marathon.

No Regerts is kind of joke because what I mean is the word regrets but spelled wrong, so by putting it on a shirt, I am really committing to No Regrets.

Please don’t give me credit for this phrase. I’m clever but not that clever. I learned about No Regerts from my favorite adult cartoon American Dad, that’s where I learn about most awesome things 🙂

But American Dad writer aren’t the only ones wise to this philosophy, if you Google “No Regerts” you will see at least a few people with this ethos tattooed on their necks.

Once, I told Mr. Katie that I wanted to get a tattoo that said No Regerts because then I really couldn’t not commit to the ethos then. Luckily, he talked me out of it. I would have only gotten it tattooed on the inner side of my arm, not my neck, I want you to know.

Still, the hour that it took me to make the shirt helped me to really think about what I was saying by putting those letters on my shirt. So hopefully I can really commit to those words on Sunday.

I am worried that I will have regrets during the race. This is going to be the race with the largest number of participants that I have ever taken part in and maybe the most intense professionally run.

Also as I mentioned in other posts, it has a 3 hour finishing time. That means if I am not in the position to finish in 3 hours, they will pick me up on some sort of shame van and transport me to last leg of the race inside the high school stadium where the race wraps up.

I am also scared because the weather report has called for a high temperature of 80 degrees that day. This has been a historically cool spring so I am not prepared to run when it is that warm. It kind of seems unfair that nature finally decides to warm up just in time for my race. I didn’t have time to train for that. I can’t control that.

I guess that is where No Regerts comes in. I can’t control everything. It is going to take everything in me, but I am going to have to stop trying to control everything and try to enjoy the ride, I mean run, anyway.

Get busy living or get busy dying right?

Published by Katie Nicholson

9 Replies to “No Regerts! Sunday is my first St. Luke’s Half Marathon”

  1. Good luck in your race this weekend Katie!!! We’re doing our first karate tournament this weekend, so I can definitely relate to your “no regerts” attitude right now.

  2. Katie: I am howling with laughter at your reference to the shame van! I have always wondered about stuff like this in regards to timed athletic competitions such as the marathon in Pittsburgh and the Rachel Carson trail challenge that happens every June. For instance, the bridge authority in Michigan closes the Mackinac Bridge for a few hours every Labor Day so that people can walk across the bridge, which is about 5 miles long. The bridge is only closed for a few hours for this. So, I wonder about the people who can’t make it across the bridge before they need to reopen it again.

    I know that you’re nervous, and I will be thinking about you. However, if you have to ride in the shame van, you should do a blog post about your ride of shame. I am sure that it will be funny.

    1. Hi Lizzo G,
      I hear ya sister. I did change my running outfit idea. I googled Streets Ahead and I had to ask myself what sediment I was trying to express for myself in this race and I wasn’t 100 percent sure that I wanted to express Streets Ahead, but I do think “It’s a locomotive that runs on us” might be the right sediment.
      I wasn’t sure where to find iron on letters that were small enough to do that but at my race yestersday I saw a “Dad” that had a shirt with magic marker on it that said something and everyone loved his shirt so maybe I don’t need to overthink it, I learned.
      Fun Fact: I found that walmart has tech shirts sized for Women and Men at affordable prices, so I know where to go in the future.
      Thanks for the inquiry

      1. sentiment not sediment. Not small sandy particles. I am, if anything, always, a geoenvironmental studies major at heart.

  4. No regrets if the shame van rolls you home! You’re doing amazing with your runs and I feel confident you will finish. I’ll be thinking of you Sunday and can’t wait to hear how you do!

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