Follow Your Heart Anyway

I was SO TIRED this morning. The kinda tired where you could just sleep all day and not even eat kinda tired. My alarm went off, what seemed like HOURS before it was supposed to. But, as usual, that thing was right on time. I managed to get my butt outta bed, change into my workout clothes, and then I plopped my happy butt right in the recliner!  I just didn’t have ANY energy.


Then came the argument with myself.  My body is saying I’m way too tired, you can go tomorrow. Plus, you have blisters from the shoes you wore at work last night and those babies need to heal. My mind is saying yeah, go back to bed!  But my heart is saying, get your stupid butt up and go running! You are going to regret it if you don’t run. I knew the latter was the real truth. I kept asking God to help me find the motivation to go running, to not fall of the bandwagon and to push forward. I managed to get up, grab my juice, and I made it to the trail.  Thank you Jesus!


And you know what? As soon as my feet hit that trail, all that crap went right out of my head. I was SO GLAD I listened to my heart and God gave me the motivation I so desperately needed!

 
I started off by walking ¼ part of it, then I turned around and FGR the whole way back. I turned around, and did it again.  Now, to some people, ¼ of a mile is not a long ways to run at one time. And the trail that I run on, doesn’t make it seem long at all. But I just picture running ¼ mile around my highschool football field. And THAT is an accomplishment – for me.  Others, maybe not. But its my blog and its all about me! Lol.


I really wish I had one of those fitbit bands, a garmin tracker, or something that I could track my stats with –time, distance, heartrate, etc.

 
After my run today, I felt so freaking accomplished!  I defeated the voice in my head telling me not to go, but I ran anyway.  I overcame blisters on my feet and ran anyway.  I had to wear shoes that eased the blister pain - but gave me arch pain while running.  I didn’t stop, I just kept going anyway. And when I didn’t think I could make it ¼ mile running at one time without stopping, I did it anyway. 

If you don't know what these are, here's the links.
https://www.fitbit.com/order?productId=133

http://www.amazon.com/Garmin-Forerunner-GPS-Enabled-Sport-Monitor/dp/B003J2V8AC/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1368164828&sr=8-4&keywords=garmin+forerunner+110