Turtle or hare...

For the first 3 monthsor so of my running, I was intent on doing what I always did.   Push hard, never really getting that my changes were to be slow and steady.  My friend Jeremy was also running, he had started the fall before me.  I had no patience to do the run for 5 minutes, walk for 2 minutes program. But I saw that he was sticking to it.  So I begrudgingly tried this way.  This is coming from a guy who decided it would be fun to head all by himself to the lake at age 18, more than an hour on bike only to go until he threw up on the side of the road from overexertion.  Kept going, too.That was the old me though.  Slow and steady, eh?Trying this taught me a new patience.  This patience was with my desire to just be where I wanted to be, to see results immediately, and to boast about the extremities of my accomplishments.

Some days were so slow and not enjoyable, others truly liberating.  I needed to enjoy the process, not the goal.  This would help me to keep my attention on enjoying the run, not on how much weight I had lost.  But that is another blog to come.
What about you? What has been the thing that kept you going long term? Give me some fuel for the fire this winter!