The Climb

Miley Cyrus may be screwed up in a lot of ways, but she did get one thing right. It really is about the climb. At least it was for me this morning. Let me start at the beginning...
(imagine some kind of space music like we are going back in time-because I did)
A few weeks while feeling frustrated with my lack of working out I went to my scriptures. I have found that including them in my health routine really helps. Anyway, I started reading and as I read the thought kept coming to me that I needed to run. Now, I am not a runner. In fact I don't run, like ever. So I ignored this thought. Well it kept coming back. I began to realize that going outside and running was going to be the best way to work my body. I couldn't just hop off the elliptical if I got bored or tired. Our running I would have to finish and get back home. I let this thought sit in the garden of my mind for a while and went about my days not exercising.
Then my husband and some friends cooked up a running schedule and I declined with a chuckle and joke about bladder control. But I knew I needed to.
So when the opportunity presented itself to go out for a run with a friend this morning I just took it. I'm going to be honest I was excited and full of energy all day yesterday just knowing that I would be going out and exercising this morning. I even had a  hard time falling asleep last night. Weird, I know.
I asked a friend (she is a real runner) yesterday for some advice and she said, "Just remember that running sucks sometimes. You just do it anyway". So with that comforting thought I headed out this morning. I stretched and waited for my friend. 
We started and I was feeling good. We didn't run the whole time (there are a lot of hills around my house). I went up to her house (up a hill that might as well have been Everest) and was still feeling pretty good. I decided I was going to push myself (something else I had been feeling like I needed to do) and ran down "Everest" and around. If it hadn't been uphill to my house I bet I could have gone more. I got to my house and the best feeling came over me. I had done something I had never done before. I had followed a prompting and I had pushed myself and made it. I was red and sweaty, but so happy. It did suck a little, but I did it anyway. 
We have plans to keep running so I am oddly looking forward to it. I may feel differently as the day goes on, but right now I am feeling so good. I have seen that I can do more than I thought I could do!