Human of the Year

Nice title aaaaaaaa? There is no such thing as Human of the Year. If there was there would be perfection, and well lets face it folks were not perfect, no one is!

Anyhow I want to talk about an accomplishment I achieved today. I began running long distances 2 years ago when I decided to train for the Akron, Ohio Marathon. All 26.2 miles...

Anyhow I learned to pace myself because when you run for that long you don't sprint the whole thing. So at that time I was running 10min 45 sec miles potentially sometimes at 10:30 mins. So typically a 3 miles run would be under 33 mins. Anyways I have started training for this stair climb that I am doing next month. So I started running a few weeks ago. Boy was I not in the same shape I was on that glorious day when I ran the marathon.

Its funny to think how I can think that only because I use to run 20-30 miles a week I can defintely run 3 miles with no problems now, even though I hadn't ran in months. This made me think of life in general if you don't practice something or commit time to it, you do not get better at it.

Anyhow so the past 3 weeks I have been running, working out, spin class etc. Today I was on some crazy hype. I don't know what happened but I decided to run at one speed today, usually I move up and down. So I stared at 5.8 and quickly moved to 6.0. My little brother was running next to me, so I wanted to prove that I was a runner. The funny thing is today was not really a day that I needed motivation from someone else. I usually tend to run and find someone else I want to beat and this works with my training.

But today was different I was on another level. I started at this speed and gradually moved up and was not tired I just did the whole thing. I ran 3 miles today in 27 mins and 40 secs and ended at 8.0 speed,  I am pretty sure I have never ran 3 miles in this amount of time or speed. It was awesome and I could have kept going but then it was time to lift some weights with my bro.

So perhaps I am not the Human of the Year but I felt like a one.