oh my godddddd! You will never guess what I did the other day! I cant believe that it happened and I can tell you that I am probably still feeling it by the time you read this post. What did I do? I just ran a new record distance for myself. See I have been training for a half marathon in October and its getting closer and closer. At first I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to do the race just because I didn’t believe that I could do the full 13.1 miles. If anything I thought that I would never progress past five. I know how hard it is for me to do five miles and it always felt like there was a block there. I would always feel like I was getting sick or my side would cramp up. It seemed like the impossible was in front of me. 

Yet I kept persisting and eventually experienced six miles. Now I did a post about what six miles felt like. With that experience you can imagine how I felt doing seven miles. Really I was dreading it and when my neighbor got sick and told me that she wasn’t going to go do the run with me, well....I started to doubt if I would do it at all. I even got to a point where I told myself that I would get up super early and go do it before anyone was awake. Yet something in me screamed to just get it over with. For a few hours I ignored it and tried my best to just relax and get ready for an early bed time. Yet something was nagging me. 

I got up, went to the bathroom and before I could think anything of it I started putting on my shoes and got dressed up for the run. Yet the motivation wasn’t present yet. So with my headphones on and the music turned up I went outside. The humidity was light and there was a breeze in the area. Without much thought or second guessing I went ahead and started on the trek. It wasn’t long before I started to realize that I was getting into it. The smiles kept growing and before I knew it I was on the trek home and flying. My legs felt like feathers and I was letting everything go. I wasn’t sure when the runners high set in but I am positive that I felt it twice while I was out there. I sure wasn’t expecting it after having pizza for dinner and I felt a little pain in my stomach from the flaming hot cheetohs but, *******n did I do it. 

I don’t know if anyone else on here is a runner but if you are then I hope you understand how accomplished I feel. It’s a step in the right direction and I am starting to feel more confidence in myself. 

Are you a runner?