Awesome! I love your attitude too. Life can so much get in the way of things. I too once ran, not much, but it was at least two miles then. Back in 06'. Like you life got in the way. I want some runners legs damnet. lol. Well just by reading your thread I know you will do this.. Good Job and keep us posted!

Sweet Mercy, girl!  You've inspired me!  After a not-so-great session this morning, I've been going over in my head why I ever signed up to do this, yadda, yadda, yadda.  But reading your post just now made me want to go back out and re-do today's workout and kick W3D3's a$$! 

I may have to print your post out and carry it with me to read during W5D3's run!

Pamcakes3 wrote:

 

Hi Everyone!

 

I'm so excited to be a part of this community!  I'm 26, 5'5, 210lbs.  I've been overweight/obese my entire life.  I finally got tired of it August 2007 and lost 88.6lbs by April 2009.  During this time, I was eating better, working out, I ran my first ever consecutive mile and cried in joy.  I was up to jogging 2 miles at a time and had dreams of running a marathon - I was also dreaming about my wedding which was coming up that August and fueled my fire to burn 1000+ calories a day. 166 looked good on me - running felt GREAT.  However, after my wedding, infertility issues, my parents divorcing, an out of state move, and marital issues - I re-discovered the deep, dark comforts of "couch potato-ing", emotional eating, and complete lack of motivation for ANYTHING.

 

So, I'm forcing myself out of it.  I am no longer the woman that does this, I am the strong, confident woman with the world wrapped around my finger and I am more the capable of making this dream happen.  I will not become another statistic.  I will not become lazy, weak, or "unable".  I miss the woman I had a glimpse of and for the first time in my life, I finally felt like I knew who I was, what I wanted, where I was going, and how I was getting there.  Time to take my life back and I'm going to start with this 5k.  I registered today - I paid, I commited.  I will train, I wil jog, I will conquer and I will feel great, and that is were the power is to keep on going - so I will register for another race, and another, and another... and I will run my marathon one day - and then another one for the hell of it.

 

Thanks so much for reading this - it turned into more of a self motiation speach, but it felt great

 

Thanks for being here - I need this place - happy running!!

Congrats for signing up and good luck on your journey