Day 1, not as easy as Day 0

Last night I decided this morning would be the day I finally start running. I’ve been thinking about starting, but it just hadn’t happened yet.  I knew I could procrastinate and delay starting more or I could get off my butt and go running for the first time in, a long time, let just say 6 weeks.

Today I woke up early got out of bed and stepped on the scale: 234.8. Ok ,I thought, plenty of room for improvement, lets get to downsizing this body of mine.  I got dressed, mapped out a 1 mile route on google maps and started out the door.

At first I was running fine but as my lungs started to rebel and my hands started freezing I thought to myself, what the heck am i doing? I felt like an idiot, I wasn’t running fast, I’m sure my form was terrible and I know that man walking his dog was laughing at me.  Some how I pushed through the persecution and finished the my first mile run.

I got home later (lets just say later) then did some stretching and hoped in the shower.  As I was in the shower I started thinking that maybe just maybe I can do this. I can torture my body 3 times a week for a few minutes a day. Feeling pumped I hoped back on the scale hoping to see an immediate effect: ERR! Wow I’d lost so much weight that the scale didn’t know what to do. It was shocked and the only thing It could say was ERR! Just to make sure I hoped back on the scale a second time only to see: 234.8 for the second time.

I use scales enough at work to know how fickle a cheap scale can be.  Sometimes 1mg of something when weighed will read out .98 mg and if you weigh it again the scale will say 1.02 mg. Expensive scales don’t do this but cheap ones do. Rembering that we bought our scale at target for $8.99 I feel confident that the second measure was wrong. I’m sure I lost at least 10 pounds on that run.

Posted by slayton on April 14, 2009

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