Perseverance Through Running

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Racing teaches us to challenge ourselves. It teaches us to push beyond where we thought we could go. It helps us to find out what we are made of. This is what we do. This is what it's all about.

Why a Running Blog and Why I run.

I chose to start a running blog because I wanted to start keeping a log of my progress with my new found love of running. A friend of mine suggested to start a running blog and I thought what a great idea. Hopefully this will inspire and encourage me to keep improving and to set and reach for higher goals. I am still so new to all this and I am still trying to learn so any help, tips and tricks would be gratefully appreciated. So here I am... I have never been a runner until now. I hated to run growing up. It just plain hurt to run so I never did. Several years and a few surgerys later I decided while out on one of my daily walks around the block to run and see how far I could go. My first time running I went 1 mile and it felt great. By the second week I was up to 2 Miles and still going strong other then a few nagging aches and pains with my knees. From then on I have been hooked. I have come to find that I now love to run. I was meant to run. Of course there are days when I seriously question that statement but I think we all do at some point. There is this feeling you get( A runners high some call it) when running that is an amazing feeling and once you have experienced it you want to continue to experience it. It's when your running and all of a sudden you feel yourself transform as if into a machine. All your muscles are working together as one and you feel strong and powerful and you feel as if you are gliding through the air and the running becomes effortless. It's an amazing feeling that only those who have experienced it can relate. It doesn't happen often but once you experience it you have to have it again. I have loved watching and feeling my body change and transform and become stronger. I am a better mother and wife when I run. You get to experience the outdoors and nature in a whole diffrent light. It's time for just me to do what I want to do and escape from the craziness of life for just a little while to think, ponder, meditate, cry, laugh, sing whatever I am feeling at the time, and I come back exhilaerated, rejuvinated, happier, calmer, and more patient. Of course this is after I recover from the sheer exhaustion. This is why I run!!!

2010 Running Miles

April 1st ----------------2.26 Miles April 5th----------------1.97 Miles April 14th---------------3.07 Miles April 19th---------------3.44 Miles April 23rd---------------4.01Miles April 29th---------------4.29Miles ----------------------------------------- May 2nd-----------------4.70 Miles May4th------------------4.65Miles May 5th------------------9.50Bike May 6th------------------4.16Miles May 10th----------------5.47 miles May 18th----------------3.70Miles May 24th----------------5.21Miles May 28th----------------4.22Miles ---------------------------------------- June 7th------------------4.02Miles June 11h------------------4.25Miles ----------------------------------------- July 5th----------------(B)15Miles July 20th----------4.50Miles (B)4.75 July 21st------------6.51 Miles (B) July 22nd----------------4.94Miles July 31st---------------17.06Miles(B) --------------------------------------- Aug 3rd---------------30 Miles(B) Aug 6th-------------13.64Miles(B) --------------------------------------- Sept 10th-----------------3.64Miles Sept 13th------------------4.15Miles Sept 15th-----------13.77MILES(B) Sept 23rd------------------3.64Miles --------------------------------------- Oct 4th---------------------3.64Miles Oct 8th---------------------4.21Miles

Perseverance Through Running

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

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