Monday

Good morning. I am very proud so of myself. I got up at 4:30 this morning to work on requirements, specifically running. I got new running shoes Saturday. I did not do many requirements yesterday. Yesterday afternoon I had two meetings, one of which was very disturbing and left me in a bad place emotionally. I am not saying it will be completely over in 5 months but it will be a lot better when I will not need to deal with this individual anymore. I wish I could say that I went for a run right after that but I had another meeting back at church and had to attend to that. That said, I did get up this morning and go for my 1.5 mile run/walk in 37 degree weather. I am very pleased with my run this morning. I am getting better at listening to my body and controlling my breathing. I caught myself getting short of breath and realized that I was taking shallow breaths then I would refocus my thoughts on my breathing. When I felt my mind wandering and my breath getting shallow and short, I would make the conscience effort to refocus my breathing to longer deeper breaths. I think this is by far one of the biggest lessons for myself on this cycle. Also I am not saying that having new running shoes made me faster but I did cut almost a full minute off the time that I did on this same loop last week. Maybe it was a combination of the new shoes, new breathing and eagerness to get in from the cold. Either way... I did it!!!