Already I've found myself with 20 "friends" on the site. It's amazing. I never thought that there would be such an overwhelming response and outreach! I have comments and messages galore from people that I don't even know all because we are there for one thing! Sooooo amazing. So tonight, I leave you with this. My post from my DailyMile. And I invite you to join the site, too!!! (Make sure to friend me while you are there ;) )
Well, here you go--
Penguin Steps
Wow. I started off this morning thinking "How in the world am I going to motivate myself for a run tonight? It's cold and ugly out, my day at work was blah, I'm tired, I'm hungry..." Good lord can I come up with excuses!!! But then I jumped on here to see how everyone was doing and BAM! Look at all of the friends I have now! I didn't expect this kind of a response, I thought maybe one or two people. And the awesome words of encouragement??? I couldn't be more happy about this site. So glad my darling friend Tessie had me join :)
So, you all motivated me. I planned on doing 3 miles, and I can't remember the last time I went out for a run and didn't take a break to walk thinking "Well this hurts or that hurts" But tonight I pushed out 5 miles with NO walk break.
Parts of my route were so icy that I had to slow down and do penguin steps (at least that's what I call them. little itty bitty steps because every time you step down you slide back a bit lol) The wind was blowing, I looked disgusting with sweat frozen to my eyelashes and I'm sure my nose was a little less than adorable. But you know what I love most about running? That it doesn't even matter to me how I look because at the end of my run, I feel amazing.
A huge thanks to all of you for being my stellar motivation and support! Tonight was great!
So, you all motivated me. I planned on doing 3 miles, and I can't remember the last time I went out for a run and didn't take a break to walk thinking "Well this hurts or that hurts" But tonight I pushed out 5 miles with NO walk break.
Parts of my route were so icy that I had to slow down and do penguin steps (at least that's what I call them. little itty bitty steps because every time you step down you slide back a bit lol) The wind was blowing, I looked disgusting with sweat frozen to my eyelashes and I'm sure my nose was a little less than adorable. But you know what I love most about running? That it doesn't even matter to me how I look because at the end of my run, I feel amazing.
A huge thanks to all of you for being my stellar motivation and support! Tonight was great!
I think it is amazing you went for a 3 mile run, because so often it is easy to make excuses. Keep up,the good work lovely!
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As someone who can't yet run an entire mile without wanting to die at the end of it, I can only hope to get to this point! Keep on doin' what you do!
ReplyDeleteI am good at making excuses. I hate exercising. Had been planning to go for run for last two weeks but i have failed miserably LOL.Well done for running 3 miles. That's amazing. I have followed you. Hope you follow me back. Cheers.
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