My toughest times while on the run……

Remember my hard core running friend?? Well, she told me that I needed a goal. She recommended that I register for the Resolution Run on New Years Eve. That was 5k, that was huge for India and I. She mentioned it a couple of times and eventually I was brave enough to check it out online. Something possessed me to register. Once I had done that I was really quite frightened. It all became very real. India and I now had a goal. With running conditions worsening as winter took hold, we began training three times a week, aiming for the better weather days not always successfully. We had good days and bad days. The toughest times were when we were out for a run and we either got to a bad hill, (in the early days any hill was bad), or the wind was really cold, or the snow or rain was coming down in our faces. When India was really pushed and it was all too much she would yell ‘Mom’. I would turn around and look at her, and her little face would be all flushed and she would be fighting back the tears ‘Mom I can’t do this, I can’t go on’. My heart broke. I had to battle between wanting to wrap her up and take her indoors and say you never have to do this and wanting to tell her to never give up because we had come so far. We got through those bad times. She wanted to carry on running. We are still a team, and we still have those tough times, but now we have larger goals and anyway………isn’t spring on its way???