My Journey With Weight Loss – Another Goal Accomplished

It was a lovely morning for a run, a decent temperature with some cloud cover. The beach was incredibly peaceful with tide out half way and the water extremely calm. Sadly this got interrupted by the arrival of a very long BNSF train. When those trains come through they are quite loud so I have to turn off my book and if you don’t time things right you can’t get off the promenade until they have left. It was the only thing that disturbed the tranquility of my run.

This week my coach had me working on picking up the pace during my other runs, not the entire runs just segments. Today I decided if I was going to do this run I was going to keep it slow and steady. I started out reminding myself it is just 1 step at a time and I could get through but this run was intimidating as I was afraid I couldn’t do it.

By half way through the run I had a good sweat happening as it is a bit humid (made me glad I had worn my running skort). When I hit 8 km my quads were like, what the hell this is where we stop. At 9 km I started counting down the blocks I had left. The last 3 blocks I really picked the pace because I was so excited. Yes today Gwenne Farrell, former short, fat, chick ran 10 km and most importantly it didn’t kill me!

When I turned 55 I decided by summer I wanted to be able to run a 10k. Well, it’s summer and I have met that goal. Huge shout out to Coach Kelly for making sure this middle aged non-runner hit this goal injury free. We still have work to do but I know now we will get there.

I should note, I am pretty proud of myself. All the work, especially over the last few weeks, has paid off and though it was only 1 run I am now confident there will be many more to come.

Realistic goals can be accomplished at any age!