Team Training Day #2

Ok so today started this morning at 5:50 am when Neal thought I was a pillow and smacked me across the head by accident. But it got me out of bed...I'll be it angry but none the less out of bed. I was the one of the first runners to arrive today so I was ceremoniously given a Team in Training sticker for my car...if you know my husband that sticker is not going any where near my car. Maybe I should post it on my mirror in the morning so that way if I feel like I don't want to run another day it is there to shock me back into reality that I signed myself up for this.
The training schedule showed us running three miles today. Well...I was tricked and I was unhappy for the duration of training today. I had to run 4 MILES!!! All I could think was what in the h$%#. I am so not a morning person and for some one to trick me this early really sets me off...it was temporary don't worry. So teams break into ones, twos and threes.....can you guess where I start...you got it ones. Ones meaning I am a slug and in no shape to pretend to even be athletic. I am what they designed the program for..people who can't run for you know what. I might be a one and I might be the last one on the trail but I am so excited to say that I actually finished and never gave up even though a few naughty words went through my head a few times. I have to give it to my coaches who never give up on you. They try soo extremely hard to keep you motivated even when you think you can't breathe any longer they are there to pick you back up and they do it in such a sneaky way. They start talking to you about your life and why you joined and soon enough you realize that you have been running at least 5 minutes. Then they run to help out other runners and you realize that you needed them and you just hit a wall and you start to panic..or at least I do. I realize I like Neal next to me because it makes me feel more confident but I did this on my own and I am challenging myself to do something I never thought I would do.
So my four miles were up and I wasn't even lapped by the runners running 5 or 6 miles which made me thrilled inside. I even can walk today which is more than I could say about last Saturday.

Until the next run....