A few months have passed and I'm not much better of than when I started... fitness wise.
Luckily my attitude has changed so I don't trudge about being depressed about the fact that a few flights of stairs make me winded. Maybe this is something everyone goes through after quitting competitive sports... a move to non-competitive sports and recreational fitness.
I have a new found respect for people who have never played sports, have never been forced to workout through practices or fitness sessions, and still keep active. For all those runners who just do it because they like to, or all those people who lift weights and go to spinning classes just to feel good, I salute you. Because it's hard motivating yourself to get active if no one is there to light a fire under your ass to do it.
I'm slowly working on becoming one of those people. I never thought I would want to BE like any of those athletes, the ones who aren't so great but love what they do and keep trying hard. Something in me always assumed I was above them, when in reality, they had more drive than I did within themselves, I just had a network pushing me and pushing me for years. I need to take those principles I learned from being on teams and working with a coaching and training staff and instill them within myself. I need to not see fitness as a chore or something I have to do, but as something I want to do because it's fun.
That being said, I might not become a distance runner. I still hate jogging. It's boring, and long, and I don't feel like I get much out of it.
But I'll join teams and go to classes and workout with friends. I'll build my own network of "training staff" around me to help keep me focused and not let me skid too far off the tracks before it's too late to get back on.
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