Well, i have completed the week at the most difficult intervals yet. i feel like this has been a total mental milestone. tonite felt pretty darn good. my feet were hitting the pavement instead of shuffling along. my breathing was labored but i knew, for some reason, that with every step i was doing it.
my mother asked me today, "Why are you doing this?". it came more from a "why would you want to do something like this?" How simply my answer came... "because i can". that was it... there's no other reason. that gave me so much energy as i was running...
tonite i got out there just because i can and it felt wonderful...
i'm pretty excited to go into this week. my intervals change to 8 min runs/5 min walks 2 times... i'm actually really excited to get this week going because i'm rapidly coming up on my first 20 min run. by this time next week i should have gotten thru it as long as the weather cooperates. i'm not going to attempt it in this humidity. i'm choosing to set myself up for failure...
needless to say i'm pretty proud of myself right now. i know that i'm improving and that's more impactful for me right now than anything else.
You're doing awesome, Chelle AND you have picked a hard time to start due to the heat of summer, but there will always be excuses and I'm rpoud of you for not giving in to them!
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- Steve Prefontaine
wow... you just summed it up. that's it right there.
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