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Let Me Introduce You to The Slowest Runner Ever

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

‘This can not be good for me,’  I think to myself as I gasp to catch my breath.  My lungs feel as if they’re about to explode and I’m pretty sure I’m going to puke any second.  And yet, I continue to force one foot in front of the other because that’s what you do at boot camp. 

I recently joined the hard core fitness group, which meets 3 mornings a week, in a desperate attempt to evict the last 10 pounds of baby blubber from my body.  But after the first day of running in circles for nearly 45 minutes on an indoor track, I’m already having second thoughts, especially since I’m the slowest. runner. ever. 

Okay, who am I kidding?  What I do could never be classified as running.  One might refer to it as a sluggish skip.  Or perhaps, a walk with a half hop every second step.  Whatever it is, it’s pretty pathetic.  And to prove it, I was lapped again, and again, and again, by every person in the class.

And it’s not as if I’m completely out of shape.  I bike 10 to 15 miles a couple times a week, and I also take kick boxing and weight training classes from the gym I attend several times a week.  I just had no idea how slow of a runner I was until  I joined this boot camp class.  And now that I do, I really wish I didn’t.  I mean, who wants to be the slowest. runner. ever?

But don’t worry.  I may be a slow runner, but I’m not a runner who quits.  I’ll run every lap the rest of the boot campers do, it’ll just take me a little longer.  Okay, who am I kidding?  A lot longer.

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