Is Good

Like yesterday, I got up early to go to the gym. The Man stayed home; he’s got a pretty bad cold, and I prefer that he get as much rest as possible. I, however, had no reason not to go, so go I did.

I was feeling really tired. Not so much because of the early hour, but because

TMI ALERT!

I’m on my period. Day two, and day two is usually the worst day. All I want to do is curl up in my pajamas with a heated pad, dark chocolate, Diet Pepsi, salty pretzels and a book.

Wait. That’s pretty much what I want to do every day :)

Anyway, because of this, I wasn’t “feelin’ it”. I half way made up my mind that I was just going to walk it out instead of run, but once I got through the stretching, and did a few minutes of brisk walking, I thought that I’d at least run a minute or two.

So I started running, and before I quite knew it, I’d ran for three minutes. I felt good, so I kept going. I passed my six minute mark, kept going. Seven came and went. Felt good. Kept going. Eight. Nine. Ten…

I stopped at ten minutes. Well, stopped running- of course I kept moving. But the thing is, I think I could have kept going… but I didn’t want to overdue it and wind up cutting my time short because I got too tired.

The point is, I ran a full ten minutes. Without stopping. Do you have any idea how awesome that is? Not even two weeks ago, when I first stepped on the treadmill, I could barely huff and puff my way through a single minute. And now, a week and a half later, I ran ten? Really?

I could barely believe it.

I still met my goal of running a total of thirteen minutes, and finished it pretty strong.

I can’t wait to see what I’ll do on Saturday! I can’t believe how well this is going. How is possible? I had no idea I could actually do this!