When I was a young girl, I took ballet lessons. This is a normal rite of passage for most girls at one point in their lives. They love the glamor of the tutus and all the pink silk.
Ballet is about as far from glamorous as you can get. ballet is about being so strong that you are almost a machine with a soul.
I had a teacher that was fantastic in that even though he had a class of little 8 year old girls and one boy, he did not hide the fact from us that it was hard work and we would need to push our little eight year old bodies into submission. He made that clear.
The earlier you learn this lesson about life the better. You coast through life and you coast into atrophy. It is really hard to make atrophied muscles work again. You have to start from square one. Ug.
A friend of mine asked me to run a marathon with her for our sixtieth birthday. Well I would rather die than do that. That tells me one thing. I should do it. ug. That is how life is. pushing all the time or you are dead.
The sooner we get used to that idea the easier it will be. I am talking to myself now but I bet there are some folks that are saying yes and amen to what I just said.
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http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_3/181.shtml
this is the training program that Jonathan’s Rachel used. She liked it because it starts you out slow enough to not get so sore and discouraged that you give up. Go Shari go.
well that is good. slow start is always the best. I wish I had a running buddy. it is so hard to do it alone