Feeling a little Bad A$$

So today I conquered Day 1 of Week 4 C25K.  As you can probably tell I was very concerned about what it wanted me to do.  I am sure I've posted about it twice already. But to my amazement, jogging for 5 mins at 4.1 MPH was nothing.  I ran/jogged for 16 mins today.

My shin splints started acting up but I found some fixes for that thanks to pinterest. So now I am looking into some compression socks for temporary relief while I work on a more real fix.

Another story that makes me feel like a bad ass. So a while back I went on a bike ride w/ my DH, BFF her DH & a friend of my BFF and it was my first ride of this season but after we signed up for the triathlon. I don't remember if I blogged about it or not anyways. It was like a 30 mile bike ride on the Cedar River Trail in Renton. And it wasn't easy for me.  I had to make a couple stops, use my inhaler catch my breath. But I did it! So now about 3 weeks ago my BFF & her friend(we'll call her M) that went with us decided to go again. This time it was my BFF, M & two of M's friends. My BFF said they other two girls showed up and they were thin and looked very in shape and toned, you know the kind that always ends up next to you at the gym. They look perfect in the spandex and she said they had really nice bikes all good to go. So my BFF & M were talking & laughing keeping a pretty slow but steady pace she said it was similar to what they did for me when I went on this ride. And they would stop at stop lights or stop signs & wait for the other two to catch up. Well about she says maybe 1/2 way thru the trail and we are not talking the turn around that is 1/2 way but 1/2 way to the turn around. While BFF & M are stopped. One of the other girls catches up and says so and so(the other girl) is done and refuses to ride any further. She just can't do this so we are turning around. O_O  My response to my BFF was but I did it? And she said YES YOU DID, Made me think about the fact that at that point I wasn't dieting, I wasn't doing my C25K and that ride was very hard for me. Yet with all the facts stacked up against me I did it.  I had enough to muscle through. And yet those girls there with them were toned & fit and they couldn't finish. These are the things that make me wonder what I am really going to be able to accomplish if I was actually a healthy and in shape.