VICTORY!!!

I have an extremely exciting story to share! We took a trip to Snowflake earlier this week. On Tuesday night I walked the mile or so to Lincoln's brother Matt's house & Lincoln rode his bike there. On the way home I had some energy & decided to jog back to his parents' house. First a little background though: A couple years ago, Linc made a comment about the way that I run. Let's just say that it wasn't a nice comment & he REALLY regrets saying it. He's apologized a million times for it, so don't hold it against him. :) I wouldn't even say anything about it, but it's a key part to this story.

So now fast forward to Tuesday night. I am jogging back to Lincoln's parents' house & he is riding his bike behind me. He says, "Holy cow! You don't run weird anymore!" I asked him what he was talking about & he said, "You look totally normal now when you run!" He asked me what I was doing differently & I told him "nothing". When I ran into the house, Lincoln's mom asked me, "Were you just running? Didn't it hurt you?" I stopped to think about it & realized that it hadn't hurt even ONE LITTLE BIT!!! Also, usually when I stop exercising my lower body just throbs...this time there was NOTHING AT ALL!!! I cannot even explain how excited I was!

We realized that the reason I ran "weird" before was because my body was trying to absorb the impact. I would kind of lean over & bend my body over...& this time I didn't have to do that because it didn't hurt! I'm sure some people would consider this a small victory, but for me it was HUGE!!! I haven't jogged without being in pain for 8 years! Yeah, yeah, yeah for me!!!