Then, quietly, about six or seven weeks ago, I started running again. Slowly I built up my time from 30 minutes to 45 minutes??… to an hour.
Then last month I started really training hard. Four times a week I would run, and one of those runs would be very long. From 10 km, it became 12 km, then 15 km??… then …
Yesterday I ran 20 km. It took me more than two hours, but I ran 20 km non-stop.
It’s incredible for a lazy, out of shape person like myself??… but if I can run 20 km non-stop I guess I’m not really out of shape! I have been slowly building up the length of my runs so that I am nearly at half a marathon now. How do I feel? It’s amazing how much we humans have the ability to do if we only BELIEVE we can do it. I keep telling myself positive things when I run: “You can do it, keep going, you can do it, keep going!” even when I feel like I cannot go on anymore. I am halfway there. In another 6 weeks I will run the first marathon of my life, something I never thought I could ever do.
What about you? Have you ever done something you never thought you could do?