Got My 5K Race Number!
I signed up for a 5k race on 3rd July 2010 a month or so back and have been doubting myself ever since. I've been learning to run since mid January and although I can now do 34mins non-stop on the treadmill, adapting to running outside is HARD and the most I've managed non-stop is 7.5mins. I've been thinking maybe running isn't for me and I should give in gracefully and just stick with my gym workouts and classes.
Anyway, today my race pack arrived with my race number. I opened the pack and just stared at my race number, 930. All of a sudden I got really emotional. I kept looking at that number and thinking, 930, ok, I'm number 930, and I really have to do this now. Then I suddenly realised that if I keep going to the goal weight I've set myself, I'll have lost 9st 3lbs. 930, 9 3 gOal! I know I'm suspicious and maybe clutching at straws and no-one else would ever have linked the two together, but I was like, wow.
I've been having a bad couple of weeks over the Uk school holidays, my routine has been a mess, hardly been able to get to the gym, the scales have been bouncing around the same couple of pounds and I've just felt like I had lost focus. But this arriving today has given me the boost I needed.
I will do this race, my goal is to be able to jog all the way and I'm going to keep training and do everything possible to achieve it, but even if I don't manage that I am still a million miles away from where I was 9 months ago.
Every pound that I lose is a step away from the old me, but every time I push myself at the gym, in a step class or out running it's like a new me is emerging who is stronger and can achieve more than I ever imagined.
Last edited by Loving Me; 04-19-2010 at 11:57 AM.
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