Holy cow, apparently I’m running my first 10k race on March 4th and how working out taught me an important life lesson!

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Disclaimer: Profanity ahead!

People keep asking me, do you enjoy going to the gym? Seriously people? Who ENJOYS going to the gym? I don’t see many people with smiles on their faces. Practically none. Unless they are trainers and find pleasure in causing other people pain. I certainly don’t stand in front of the big fat gym mirror, lift weights and smile at myself thinking, woman, you are awesome. Instead I’m thinking something along the lines of ‘holy shit this is going to kill me.’ I’m starting to believe that all those people featured in fitness magazines and on fitness websites are a big fat lie. It’s by far not as enjoyable as they make it out to be. I mean WTF is this all about??

Convincing myself that I can actually run for an hour or lift a certain weight is bloody difficult. It’s like a full blown bitch fest is taking place in my head.  Run, Antonia, Run. No, Antonia stop running. Sport’s not good for you. Antooooonia run! Smile, Antonia, smile. No, Antonia be grumpy. You get the picture. My inner lazy douche canoe is fighting my inner fitness obsessed me.

Anyway, in related news, I have battled through four months of rather intense workouts and now I signed up for my first *ever* race on March 4th, 2012. Yeah I know, it’s only 10k but you don’t even know how far that’s taking me outside my comfort zone. In fact, I have lost sight of my comfort zone. It’s gone into hiding somewhere. Deep in the woods me thinks so I will never find it again. EVER.

How am I going to run 10k with a bitchfest happening in my head? I tell you how. I will run the minute I’m in. One minute at a time. Step by step. I will make it through. Alive.

Believe it or not, working out my body has taught me something about life. It’s not about yesterday or tomorrow. It’s all about the now. The moment we are living right now. Sometimes life is enjoyable and sometimes it throws us the biggest curve balls and the best way to handle the crap in our lives is to focus on the minute we are in. That’s the only way we are going to come out on the other side smiling.

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