Monday, July 25, 2011

The one where the body forgot

So I finally did it.

I went for a run tonight.

The kids were at VBS for a couple of hours so I roped Gary into running with me.  I have been feeling a lot of trepidation about going for a run.  I wasn't sure why I was feeling that way, but I have been incredibly nervous about running.  I thought it was just because I was afraid it would hurt.

I should have been afraid that it would be a colossal fail, because that's what it felt like.

I couldn't breathe, I felt like my legs wouldn't move, and I really felt like my body just completely forgot how to run.

Well, I suppose it DID remember.  But it just happened to remember the run I did at Grandma's and it tried to mimic that.

So the good news is that I finally went out and ran.

The bad news is that getting back into running is going to be harder than I thought it would be.  A lot harder.

Why couldn't I just have been born with a few more of those "natural runner" genes?

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