Half Marathon!!
I’ve been thinking about this blog for a while and finally have gotten around to completing it. This has been a journey that has developed over the past three years, believe it or not. So I see it only fit to start back at that time. The spring after my son was born, a good friend of mine encouraged me to get out and start running with her. She too, had a daughter the same age, and it was a good excuse to get out and enjoy our new lives with kids. I’m not going to sugar coat this, because taking this step was effin hard! I never enjoyed running, as my previous posts have mentioned, and I would avoid it at all costs when I was training in highschool for rowing. I despised it with great passion. But, I figured this would be a great way to help shed some baby weight that was lingering, and really still is. I was only able to run about 100 meters at this point and had … needed to walk in between. My mind was going crazy trying to convince my body that this was insane. I could not do this! My body was trying to tell my mind, that it was insane. I was crazy to think I could do this.
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