Today is the first day it actually feels like Autumn outside! Yay! Fall is my hands-down, without a doubt favorite time of the year, specifically the month of October, which starts in 5 days. Apples, pumpkins, pretty leaves, hooded sweatshirts, hot tea. Mmmmhmmmm.
Now on to something I never thought I would say: I am going for a run. I use to HATE running. Like run-the-mile-in-sixth-grade-and-cry-about-it kind of hate running. Now I can say I ran/walked a 5K in July. I an preparing to run/walk a 5K in the end of October and hopefully, I will run my first full 5K on Thanksgiving in the famous Springfield Turkey Trot. With the weather being cooler now, it helps with the motivation to lace up those shoes and go hit the pavement. I honestly wouldn't have stuck with this running thing if there wasn't someone doing it with me. Everything is always easier with a partner in crime. She keeps me going when my legs are about to give out beneath me. Maybe you are asking, "Whitney, why do you all of a sudden like to run?" Let me answer that question...I don't know! Ha. I think it has something to do with the progress of it. I also think it has something to do with the fact that the pounding of my shoes on the pavement helps me pound some thoughts out of my head. I am a thinker (and a worrier). Running gives me time to sort through all these thoughts running through my head (pun intended, by the way). So in TWO months I will be running 3.1 miles. My body. My feet. My legs...with a little help and strength and faith in my God. I'm excited to prove to myself that I can do it! Hopefully, I won't look like Homer. :)
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