Walking the Road to Somewhere
I don’t like running. Never have, despite playing soccer all through my youth. And now, as an almost 43-year old mom with someone else’s lungs in my chest cavity, running seems practically impossible (high functioning lungs = kind of critical for running, no?). There are many physical barriers on top of my already present mental barriers. I feel tightness across my chest still. My entire body suffered from a lack of oxygen for over six years and I don’t really know what the lasting effects of that are though I do know at the time, it was awful, I was in right heart failure and I lost a lot of strength. I've done short sprints maybe three times in the past two years and probably jogged a total of 300 yards. And, as I may have mentioned, I don’t like running. But I’m curious to see what these lungs and this body can do so I went ahead and signed up to do a half marathon in June . To be fair, I am only committing to run/WALKING it so I’m not trying...