First Week

It's not gone so great, this first week.

For one, it's really cold outside. And windy. And icy.

For two, I'm really slow. Slow slow slow. So much slower than I want to be. That's really frustrating. I'm reminding myself that this is the first week, but it's still really frustrating.

But, yesterday and today when I ran, I felt a lot of pain, and that made me happy.

Yesterday my collar and shoulders hurt (and still ache). Today, my calf hurt, and then both my thighs and hips.

I felt that that was a good thing. I'm burning through my body being used to not running, and not doing things. I'm burning through the slowness, the laziness, my preference for sitting around and reading books. I'm building up a fire of running and of motion. I'm reminding my muscles that they are muscles and they are going to work.

I've got 7 more weeks of work ahead of me and I am going to push.