I'm gonna be a runner!

Running is something that I have never been able to do.  In school, I was lucky if I was able to walk our one mile "run" before the end of class when they had to make us stop.  I remember many times when I would be lying on the grass afterwards thinking I was going to die.  Who would want to do this willingly?  I thought that cross-country runners had to have a mental illness of some sort.  Who could possibly enjoy doing this?

Then I realized - fit people like running.

On every season of The Biggest Loser, you always see the contestants running.  Whenever I read success stories of people that have lost weight with Weight Watchers, I see how they have become athletes.  They compete in 5Ks & 10Ks and even half & whole marathons.  These people have realized something that I try to keep trying to force myself to ignore - fit bodies like to run.  I definitely want to have a fit body and today I did something about it.  I ran.  

Granted - I only ran for 5 minutes out of a 51 minute walk, but I still ran!  I felt like I was going to die and that my lungs were going to explode, but I did it.  Plus, I'm going to go out again Tuesday morning and I am going to make myself run for 6 minutes, even if it kills me!  I kept telling myself that running will never feel as horrible on my body as it did today.  That everyday that I keep getting out there and making myself do it that my body will adapt and train and get used to the workout that I want it to do.

I have walking goals for this year of being able to do a 5K & 10K but by next year I want to be able to do these as runs.  I will get there because I'm going to keep pushing myself one minute at a time.