New love

Ever since I can remember, exercise was never something I really looked forward to except for the 2 year period when I did gymnastics. Even 10 months ago, running was laborious and I had to talk myself into thinking it was a good idea. Recently though, like in the last semester I've slowly began to have this love for running. It's really interesting. I think it's perhaps that I was in better shape when I began so it wasn't so hard to improve. Once I started improving it was really cool! I went from being able to run 3 minutes, then 6 then 11 then 15 then 20 over the past month and a half when I could fit it into my schedule and today I ran my first 5K! I'm really excited about it because it was 30 minutes of running with no stops. I actually want to go running every day and look forward to it even though I'm still tired from the day before. I think the fact that it's warming up outside really helps. Inside running is harder because it's easy to get bored with it.

Even though things have been really hectic this semester with classes and such, I feel as though my life is really coming together. I thank God for this and I can almost feel his hand arranging my priorities even in this previous one with exercise. I feel like it was almost an effortless transition into a great habit. Going vegan was the same way. It's been about 3 months now and I really don't ever want to go back.

Anyways, I found this website where you can map out where you want to run and it calculates the distance for you. Someone had already mapped out a 5K around here and I used it and it was amazing!



I'm hoping to do this longer run more often and would even like to work up to doing something really hard someday like a half marathon. Running a marathon seems a little over ambitious as it would mean nonstop running for over 4 hours at a pace of 6 mph for a total of 26 miles. We'll see what happens. I really hope this new love does not die anytime soon.