Running for IT
I ran a 5K race today. I haven't run a 5k race since April 1996. Yep, exactly 10 years. Happens to correspond with the month that I started dating my future wife :-) Lot has happened in between races...like 50 pounds...amazing...how did I gain 50 lbs. 15lbs with each child, plus 5 this past year...it was the last 5 that did it for me. I don't know why, but when I saw that extra 5 go on, and I didn't have a baby to blame it on (how exactly did I think the babies were to blame anyways?) something just snapped. That and the fact that many friends in the same boat as me have picked up running the past 2 years and are leaving me in the dust. Nothing like a little peer pressure.
So I ran a 30:18. I imagine that without the extra 50 I'm toating around, i could run quite a bit faster - what do you think? :-)
In April 1996, I ran a 21:30. It's slightly depressing, but it's reality. Good news is that 2 weeks ago when i started training, I was running at a 36mn pace. It's going to take a lot of hard work, discipline and patience to get back in shape. But the alternative is an open heart table - and a whole new wardrobe cause basically nothing fits anymore. Plus i have just felt sluggish and not myself. Anyways, it will be worth it. IT always is. It is discipline...it doesn't matter if it is prayer, reading the Bible, spending focused time with my wife or kids, etc.... IT always is a great return on investment...and if this was my last day on earth, IT is what I want to have been found doing.
Well, hopefully my times get better, but that's just a measurement - like my waistline :-)
posted by Blackie's Tour @ 6:21 PM
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