Today was a Victory!

I finally broke the 15 minute-mile mark today and ran a mile in 14:44!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've never been an athlete, but I've almost always been, at least someone active.  Be it in sports, marching band, Drum & Bugle Corps, or even running around Ball State campus trying to get to class on time, there has rarely been a time where most of my time I've spend sedentary.  That's changed now.  As much as I do enjoy my job, it's very normal for me to spend 12+ hours a day sitting in a chair.  Still, today I realized that I am in the best physical shape I've ever been in, in my life!

I remember in high school the fastest mile time I remember having was right around 15:30.  When I did drum corps in the summer of 2006, I lost a lot of weight and my physical shape dramatically improved, but not as much as it could have, I don't think, but the recovery time was so minimal.  It also came to a dead stop when I got back home in August.  The changes that took place were not sustainable at all.  (I'll have to write another post about Corps, because it was an amazing experience!)

Like I said earlier, I ran a mile in under 15 minutes today!  I also actually ran over half of that mile, walking about a fourth of it.  (Maybe a little more than that, kinda hard to gauge it.)  I also realized that the pace I now warm up at is faster than I did my entire workout when I first got started several months ago.  I'm also doing my working and my cool down in less time than it took me to do just my workout back then! 

The improvements are coming so quickly now, and I can only thank God and his sufficient grace and faithfulness towards me!  He's provided such an incredible support system of people all over the country, and that is growing all the time!  I know that my story is being used to inspire and encourage people all over the place and that inspires and encourages me even more!  I absolutely could not have made it as far as I have without God's provision!