Going for gold

Olympic glory comes but once every 4 years. The athletes train for years for their one shot at glory. Unfortunately, for many the games end leaving them wanting. However, you don't have to be an Olympic athlete to achieve success. Over the past few weeks, as I've been off the books so to speak, I've also been living vicariously through those at the olympic games. As I've watched people, in the peak of physical condition, I've sat on my lazy ass and wished to be like them. I didn't step up my workouts... Or really push myself at all. I know that I'm probably never going to be in Olympic gymnast shape, but I can achieve my own personal health goals. But I won't even do that by sitting on my couch and eating cookies. I have to get out there, where ever that it, and make myself work.

This morning, as I begrudgingly awoke at 5:00 am to my unwelcomed alarm, I knew that I had to get back on track. My first of my three races is in less than a months time, and I have fallen far from my training routine. I realized this, after the initial shock of seeing an hour that I had managed to elude for many weeks, and knew that today was my "now or never." Thus, after cursing the time once more, I managed to squeeze into my running clothes and knock out 30 min on my treadmill. Now inrealize that this is far from an Olympic victory, but for myself it was a small gold medal moment. I realize that I will probably never stand on the podium as the national anthem blares out to a crowd of thousands, but I started my school year off on the right foot, and I think I might have heard the faintest of patriotic melodies in the background.