Good morning!!! I can not believe what a morning it has already been and it is only 5:50 a.m. I got up at 4:30 (nothing new there) and hit the floor running, almost literally. A while back if you had told me that I would wake up at 4:30, do 10 burpees, 10 inclined pull-ups, 20 sit-ups before running, I repeat, RUNNING 1.5 miles, I would have wondered what kind of nut you were. But that is what I did this morning. The best thing of the morning was that I beat my best time. Up to now my best time for this loop has been 24:17 but I set a goal for less than 24 minutes. TODAY I DID MY RUN IN 23:50.88 !!!!!!!! On January 18th when we took the pretest at Master Evins school I could not run the 1.5 miles so I did a walk/run. As a result my initial time was 25:12, so you do the math. that is over a minute off my original time!!!
During my run this morning I learned another breathing lesson. It is easier to relax & breath on the flat straight aways and down hill, however it is more important to relax & focus on your breathing on the hills. There would not be valleys, straight flat paths or down hill slopes with out the hills that seem impossible to complete. In our lives we will encounter each of these, the hills will help you become a stronger person and develop your character if you remember to breath and relax when you encounter the hills, and trust me, if you run long enough or live long enough you WILL encounter hills. Expect them, train for them, breath and relax through them.