I know this must sound silly to most but my entire life I've hated to run. I played sports of all kinds and I could swim around the world as long as you didn't ask me to run at any portion of the trip. In grade school I would never get an A in P.E. solely because I refused to run the stupid mile test. So today I made every P.E. teacher of mine proud, well maybe just myself.
Today after 15 minutes on the stair machine I thought to myself how tiring this is, so I'll go walk briskly on the treadmill. I wanted to start preparing to train to run this mile (Project 622 task #42) so I started slow with a run of 1 minute. After successfully running for the minute, let's go a little further and run 1 1/2 minutes. I got to that mini goal and just kept running one minute at a time until I ran 15 minutes. It really is like Forrest Gump; I just kept running. Technically I ran a little longer than a mile but the Kid's Playarea was closing and my kids would be really mad at me I'm sure if I chose the treadmill over them.
Now that my task is completed, I realized it was all in my head that I couldn't run a mile, my entire life. I want to do it again.
Congratulations!!! I'm with you on conquering that mile. My goal is two right now...hahah I was happy when I ran one and a half. I'm planning to do it before I'm 30...so sometime tomorrow...err today, its 1am.
ReplyDeleteWhat?! You've never expressed that you thought you couldn't do ANYTHING. You just hate being bored and thought running was boring and you'd have to break a sweat. You go woman!! :)
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