December 02, 2009 @ 06:39

Last night we finally did it.  We ran our first race.  A 5k.  Our hometown’s Dashing Through the Lights.  It was cold cold cold.  And it was harder than I’d have thought.  I mean we do this all the time, right?  But it puts into perspective just how much you left yourself off the hook when you are just running on your own.  Plus, a week ago, I was laid out with the H1N1.  I feel good about just finishing.  About halfway through, a group of us were chatting during a walking moment and I shared what was really the best part of the night for me.  A little more than a year ago, I’m not sure exactly, but somewhere between 12 and 15 months ago, I weighed over three hundred pounds.  I had let it get that bad again.  But here we were a year later and instead of saying gosh I’ve been sick and gosh it’s cold and gosh I can do it next month, I showed up.  And that’s half of success, just showing up.  We came in damn near last, but we showed up.  When we could have been sitting home cozy and warm with a plate of cookies watching Biggest Loser, we showed up.  And hopefully, sometime in the next week or two, we’ll thaw out.  In the meantime, YAY US!!! 

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