I am not a runner. I used to hate the mile in gym class growing up. I would find any excuse I could to skip out on it as I would rather do dozens of pull-ups any day over running for 10 minutes straight. When I lived in Argentina from 2013-2014 I realized I had a lot of free time on my hands so I started to exercise more. I explored the city by walking and I was lucky to live close to the Bosques de Palermo, Parks of Palermo, so the walking turned into running. I completed an app on my phone called couch to 5k, interval training to get someone running a 5k in 8 weeks. I loved the way it made me feel and I was also stubborn so I had to finish the challenge I set out for myself. When I returned to the US I continued to run but as soon as it got cold I stopped, I didn't like being outside myself when it was dark and freezing!
I moved to a new neighborhood in Atlanta in June that is very close to the Atlanta BeltLine, a walking and biking trail that runs through metro Atlanta. The weather was gorgeous so I started running again and decided I wanted to start running more than I had before. So I set out to complete to couch to 10k app which would take 14 weeks to complete. The first 8 weeks were pretty easy but the next six got much harder. I pushed myself and made it through, I was comfortably running over 6 miles at a time. While it is now getting colder and I will probably stop running as much, I now know I can do it and will start running again in the spring!
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