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quickhornBack in high school, I biked everywhere. I would ride my bike to my girlfriends house on 90th S and 9th W from State and 6400 S. every night. Back then, I actually had a stomach that was impressive, and not in stature.
These days, I'm dealing with a reoccurring intestinal infection that makes it hard for me to enjoy a good 30% of the day at least twice a week. In addition, I get regular charlie horses throughout my entire body (stomach, ribs, chin...oh the chin, it's like someone has replaced all of my muscles with reverse rubber bands). Not to mention the horrible fact that I'm balding. Oh yeah, and I've gained at least 30 pounds since I got married.
Now, when I got married, I was super skinny. So I'm not looking to go back to that time, but even then I wasn't in good shape either. I couldn't walk up the stairs at Sungard without being completely out of breath.
I was thinking about how much I don't like my body, and then someone asked me about running in this race. For some reason, something in me said to do it. I was still a little unsure, but then when I talked to Amanda, she convinced me to commit.
So here I am, a year before needing to run 7 miles at a time and keeping an 11 minute mile pace and I am more excited about it than nearly anything else in my life. Already I feel better about my body and I've only been doing it for a week and a half. And that week and a half hasn't been so bad.
Right now, since we're running together, Amanda is taking a little bit more to get going than I am. I think that's probably just due to the fact that I've walked to work and around campus for the last 5 years, so I have a little bit of a head start. Unfortunately, I don't th ink this actually gives me an advantage. Instead I'm going to be feeling fine, while Amanda gets used to working hard I'm going to be "breezing by" for the next week or so. And then I'll hit the point where it'll be hard, and like many things in life, I may not have the stamina to complete it.
Amanda and I have spent a considerable amount of time talking about how we've spent so much of our lives simply succeeding without a lot of effort. Lots of things come naturally to us, and then the things that do not, instead of working hard on them, we avoid them. This has driven me to not complete classes that I'm actually interested in, because I didn't feel I would benefit from them; despite wanting to learn the content (Physics 2200, I miss you). So I'm afraid I'll hit that point with the running and want to stop.
Alas, with this, hopefully all of you can keep us committed.
These days, I'm dealing with a reoccurring intestinal infection that makes it hard for me to enjoy a good 30% of the day at least twice a week. In addition, I get regular charlie horses throughout my entire body (stomach, ribs, chin...oh the chin, it's like someone has replaced all of my muscles with reverse rubber bands). Not to mention the horrible fact that I'm balding. Oh yeah, and I've gained at least 30 pounds since I got married.
Now, when I got married, I was super skinny. So I'm not looking to go back to that time, but even then I wasn't in good shape either. I couldn't walk up the stairs at Sungard without being completely out of breath.
I was thinking about how much I don't like my body, and then someone asked me about running in this race. For some reason, something in me said to do it. I was still a little unsure, but then when I talked to Amanda, she convinced me to commit.
So here I am, a year before needing to run 7 miles at a time and keeping an 11 minute mile pace and I am more excited about it than nearly anything else in my life. Already I feel better about my body and I've only been doing it for a week and a half. And that week and a half hasn't been so bad.
Right now, since we're running together, Amanda is taking a little bit more to get going than I am. I think that's probably just due to the fact that I've walked to work and around campus for the last 5 years, so I have a little bit of a head start. Unfortunately, I don't th ink this actually gives me an advantage. Instead I'm going to be feeling fine, while Amanda gets used to working hard I'm going to be "breezing by" for the next week or so. And then I'll hit the point where it'll be hard, and like many things in life, I may not have the stamina to complete it.
Amanda and I have spent a considerable amount of time talking about how we've spent so much of our lives simply succeeding without a lot of effort. Lots of things come naturally to us, and then the things that do not, instead of working hard on them, we avoid them. This has driven me to not complete classes that I'm actually interested in, because I didn't feel I would benefit from them; despite wanting to learn the content (Physics 2200, I miss you). So I'm afraid I'll hit that point with the running and want to stop.
Alas, with this, hopefully all of you can keep us committed.
