20 Minutes

I am the first person to tell you that I am NOT a runner. 

Playing basketball in high school, I would *literally* get physically sick just thinking about conditioning.

And even then, we weren't usually straight up running for more than 8 minutes at a time. 

But for some reason, I have always wanted to run a 5k. 

So I've started the Couch to 5k program several times.

I usually quit around week 4, because running for 5 minutes was just too hard. 

Don't laugh--it WAS hard for me. 

But today? Today I finished Week 5 Day 3.

The first LONG run of the program. 

Jumping from running 8 minutes, to running twenty minutes. 

Twenty minutes.

I ran for TWENTY MINUTES, without stopping or pausing. 

Okay, some of the time was probably more of a shuffle than a run. 

But I finished, and I did not stop. 

I kind of can't believe it--20 minutes probably seems small to most, but it was HUGE for me.

And then I cried, because I beat my own worst enemy--myself.