You Want Me To Do What Now?

Training. (Running.)

Week Four

I thought it would be okay since I've been running every week and running longer intervals each time.

I feel great now (twenty minutes after I've finished) but when I started and saw the intervals this thing wanted me to do, I thought, "You want me to do what now? No way. I can't."

But then I stopped myself. I cut off that train of thought and quickly started telling myself,
"I can and I am."
I was already running so why not keep going?

I did it. I stopped to stretch out my legs (they were cramping in my ankles....weird) halfway through the five minute interval but I paused the program so that I didn't cheat myself (entirely) out the five minutes of running.

By the end, my lungs felt...spongy? Does that make sense? Like, I couldn't breathe and my lungs felt sticky and spongy. The only way I could breathe was by lifting my shoulders up to my ears when I inhaled and huffing when I exhaled.

I looked so cool. Not.

BUT I DID IT. I completed the entire workout. I ran and didn't give up. And I was able to do it because I asked the Lord to help me. The Lord knows how important this is to me and so He made it important to Him.

God is, and Life is, GOOD.

P.S.-If I can do it, SO CAN YOU. One of my favorite quotes, "No matter how slow you go, you're still lapping everyone on the couch."