I decided on January 1st that I wanted to run a marathon. I have been very overweight for much of my life. I was an athlete growing up and through college, but as soon as I graduated and didn't have a team to work out with anymore, I let my weight get out of control. Even when I was in the best shape of my life as an athlete, I was heavier than my peers.
To work toward my goal of running 26.2 miles in October, I have been running consistently for the past 7 months at least a couple times a week. Some days, it's really hard to motivate myself to get out there and run. I sometimes take it slowly because at least I'm doing something rather than sitting at home. Today was one of those days. My training run was to do a 1 mile time trial. After a 10 minute warm-up, I was to run a mile as fast as I could. I wasn't feeling my best and even told my partner that I would be okay with a slower mile time today as long as I felt like I gave it all I had in me today.
I finished the run and ended up with my fastest mile time ever!
I have a long way to go in both training for this marathon and with weight loss, but this reminded me that even though I can't always see the weight loss, my body is changing for the better and I'm becoming healthier. I'm excited to see the times for my runs continue to decrease along with the numbers on the scale!
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