{"id":104,"date":"2014-03-14T00:35:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T00:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahdamm.com\/index.php\/2014\/03\/14\/three-lessons-i-learned-while-learning\/"},"modified":"2015-06-03T22:48:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T22:48:56","slug":"three-lessons-i-learned-while-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarahdamm.com\/index.php\/2014\/03\/14\/three-lessons-i-learned-while-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Lessons I Learned While Learning to Run"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIt\u2019s 6 p.m., and I am running around the kitchen, putting the finishing touches on my family\u2019s dinner. I ask Anna to set the table and Olivia to fill the water glasses. As I call my family to dinner, I fill up my water bottle and lace up my running shoes. I call out to my family, \u201cSave some for me!\u201d And I head out the door.<\/p>\n

I am very much in favor of family dinner, and I strive to maintain this sacred time more often than not. But this isn\u2019t a normal evening, because each Tuesday night, I join other moms for a weekly running club.<\/p>\n

Me, a runner?<\/p>\n

With my water bottle, workout clothes and Asics Gel running shoes (that I was professionally fitted for), I guess I look like a runner. But not only do I look like a runner, my running coach and teammates tell me I am<\/i> a runner. And after completing my first 5K race last summer, I suppose they are right.<\/p>\n

I am a runner!<\/p>\n

But how did I, a woman addicted to chocolate and allergic to exercise, get here? It hasn\u2019t been easy.<\/p>\n

\nStruggles, fears and excuses.<\/b>
\nI\u2019ve always struggled with making exercise a regular part of my routine. Everything else took priority, and I made every excuse I could think of not to exercise. Was it fear of hard work? Was it the dread of pain and discomfort? Was it laziness? Perhaps it was a combination of all of the above that stood in my way of taking that first step out the door and onto the running path.<\/p>\n

For a long time, I was able to get away with not exercising. As long as I ate a healthy, well-balanced diet. But the older I got and more children I had, I accepted that exercise needed to become part of my life.<\/p>\n

But how was I going to make exercise happen? As an analytical person, I can think about a decision so much that I end up doing nothing at all. And that\u2019s exactly what I did about exercise. I thought about getting up early, before the kids and sunrise, to fit in a workout video. I thought about attending a class at our local YMCA. Many times throughout the day, I thought about going for a walk around my neighborhood. But did I actually act upon any of these thoughts? Um, no, I didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s it going to take? <\/b><\/p>\n

\nRead about how I overcame my fear and accomplished something I never, ever expected to do, and what I learned in the process, over at CatholicMom.com!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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