Today I am thankful for my cousin. Of course I'm thankful for all of them, because I'm actually friends with all of them besides just being related to them. But today, specifically I am thankful for my cousin that lives just a few blocks away and is my running partner! A few weeks ago at lunch she randomly asked if I'd be interested in training for a half marathon in May. I had actually wanted to do it this year but was pregnant so obviously running (or even walking) 13.1 miles at that point was out of the question. So, I told her sure, thinking in a week or two we'd get a plan together and get started. Much to my surprise (and somewhat to my dismay) that afternoon I received a Google calendar link to a training schedule that started THAT DAY.
There I was just barely 3 months after having a baby and not having done any sort of regular exercise in quite some time and I was about to start running? We did start our training and as of today have finished four weeks! I can very honestly say that if I didn't know she'd be waiting outside my house at 6:30 a.m. three days a week, I would have already quit. But I'm still going! It's great because she's patient with my slow pace, she's encouraging, and she's helping me get back into shape (probably better shape than before the baby)!
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