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Giving yourself grace

Today I reached almost the end of a challenge I set for myself a couple of months ago. I finally reached week 8 of my Couch to 5K running app! It only took me eight,   ok, try closer to eleven weeks to finish. But hey, I'm just proud I stuck to it for this long! I was running with one of my sisters and a little while into the run I thought to myself "Wow, I've not run this far in forever!" I seriously felt like a champ when we got finished. And to think today at work I told myself, well Chris is gone this evening, so I can just go home, cook myself supper, watch my cooking shows and be in bed by 8. Yes, I'm an old woman on the inside and I love it.  I'm so glad I didn't! I pushed myself to do something even when I didn't necessarily WANT to at the moment, and in the end I felt so much better. I was a cross country runner in high school and deep down I loved it. I complained just about every practice about fartleks (google it, I promise it's ...