This photo might not look like anything special to anyone. 1 mile in 15:59 is not fast. Lots of people can walk 15 min miles and to know that I sweated this one out might even make some of them laugh. It is just one mile. This one mile is not my fastest mile, this is not my 100th mile, or the last mile of a half marathon. So what makes it special to me?
For the last few days I've been wanting to run. I am shocked at what working out at home for a half hour a day has done to my motivation and the way I am feeling. Yesterday I missed my work out due to an unexpected night w/ hubby. I told hubby that I was thinking about getting on the treadmill before my work out to kind of make up for the one I missed. And the thought and itch to run never left my brain. I laced up my running shoes and thought I'll just warm up with some intervals for 15 mins. I have not even jogged for 16 months, that was the Run a Muk 2015 and I walked that 5K except for the last 1/10th of a mile, once we could see the finish line. The time before that was The Tinkerbell Half Marathon in May 2015. I had no idea what to expect getting on the treadmill today. Would I be back to square one where 1 mile was taking me around 25 mins? As I watched the time on the treadmill, I kept on pushing it. At 15:59 I hit 1 mile and hit stop and smiled. The minimum speed requirement to run a RunDisney run is 16 min miles. After all this time I was able to pull out a Disney Mile. And I am pretty darn pleased with that.
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