Remember all my talk last spring about Couch to 5K? And then it got too hot to run outside, so I kind of quit. I tried again in the fall, but couldn’t get my schedule sorted out and kind of dropped out again. And then I hurt my back, then I hurt it again and again…with all of that, it’s been at least 6 months since I ran. I’ve been in too much pain and had too little energy.
But one day last week I woke up and my pain levels were maybe a 2, instead of the 7 (or 8…or 9) they had been for months. I know people will roll their eyes, but it was literally like I was healed over night. It still hurts at the end of a long day or if I am in certain positions for too long, but the excruciating, exhausting pain is gone. I am doing stuff with the kids again, I am working on cleaning up the 3 months of mess that nobody else in this house has bothered to touch, and I feel like there’s a possibility of this going away completely. If you’ve been reading the past few months, you know this last point is huge.
I have been toying with the idea of going out and running for a few days. I was a little scared, but I was ready to make some effort toward losing the weight I’ve put on while I was in too much pain to care. So this afternoon I suited up, got my husband to drive me over to Kiwanis Greenway (just in case I passed out or fell or randomly got shot) and RAN. I just did W1D1 of C25K, but I finished it and had such a runner’s high afterwards.
My cool down song was, appropriately, the Glee cast version of Don’t Stop Believing.
