Running. I'm not a fan. In my minds eye it is like getting wet bags of cement to dance. I am heavy footed, my stride is short and stiff, I can feel every fat cell jiggle and giggle, and my breathing is suffocating.
But yesterday I had a breakthrough. I was doing the 300 meter shuttle. Normally at about just over 1/2 way mark, my body decides that that is enough and I start to walk. But not this time. My mind decided to keep running, so I forced my body to listen, and..... the full 300m without walking! I had to laugh (gasp actually), it felt like winning a marathon! And all I had to do was not do something, quit. What a great feeling to not quit AND actually reach your goal. I wanted to do it again right there and now, I didn't cause that would have been silly, but I wanted to.
The feeling of pushing past what I perceived as a limit was enlightening. What else can I apply this feeling to? Why everything dear reader!! Now this doesn't mean I am going to go all fitness freak on everything I do but now that I have found a way to get over my "wall", maybe, just maybe, this is a step on a new path that will allow me to break down some more walls that I have imagined in my way.
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