I'm A Winner!

I did it! I entered my first 5K yesterday and won third place in my age group! I did it!

Of course, 5K sounds so much longer and of the feeling of greater accomplishment than saying....3.2 miles.

But I did it!

I had a "co-walker" with me...a friend of the daughter....and he helped me and encouraged me. I really would have not finished if he had not been there. It is such a crazy thing. to be walking so hard and so fast as you can and look around and you are the last one in the group. and you think you are the last in the entire 230 that started the race. I wanted to quit because I was ashamed of being last...and then the friend told me that there are people behind me and in front of me that I can't see.

I also knew that if I quit, I would never hear the end of it from my kids and family. and I am just stubborn enough to not give up.

Guess that "stubborn" that I have always had finally paid off. that "stubbornness" that my husband always fussed at me about...but in the Bible, there is this story about the "persistent" woman going before the judge and her "persistance" won out. So I guess I am persistant instead of stubborn. ha ha.

It was kind of interesting. I used to walk four miles all the time when I lived in another town, but then I had knee operations, gained weight, and got older, and did not work out like I should and it all came down to my getting "partially, at least" back in shape.

I am on the way now! This race probably created a monster, as they say. I am encouraged to do more walking now and to learn to speed it up and grow stronger.

I did it! Such an accomplishment in my mind! At my age, to take on this aspect! Thank you, Lord, for bringing me to this place and for my health.