3 miles
@ 38 mins
No weights
After going to bed at 8:30 pm the night before due to exhaustion, I ended up dreaming that I finished the 1/2 Marathon. It was in that surreal world where the race ended in the gym of my old high school and along the way were lots of people getting in my way. People wanting to beat me, push me out of the way, stop and talk to me, confuse me, and basically stop me from finishing the race. For the last length of the race I had a difficult time pushing past most of the people who stood in my way, however, I did finally finish where I won a sticker of my choice. (Oh how I can never escape the sticker chart mentality of school.) So as I lie there at 5 am listening to my alarm go off, practically sweating in my warm bed, I convinced myself that morning workouts are not of the devil and went. On one of the straight lengths of my lap I would quicken my pace every go around. The first two miles are always the worst, so I'd run my hardest for that short straight section and then go back to my "kill me now" pace until the next lap. Eventually I could stretch out the quicker pace to part of the following curve, and even tried to go faster on the other side's straight away. Basically my goal is to have a strong three miles before January 15th when I start my real training. I know I'm going to be at the back of the pack for the entire run, but my only goal here is to finish it. And that's what I intend to do no matter who or what tries to stop and talk me out of it along the way.
So to all of you who are working your fat behinds off and still feel fat, (like me) remember, you don't have to be skinny to be fit, and you can always sit on those that are. :)
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