Michelle and I are planning to run the koman 5K for breast cancer. As it’s a fundraiser (don’t worry, y’all will see an email soon enough, and if I don’t know you and you want to donate, I guess leave a comment?) I decided to send an email to my entire office. 2 locations. everyone @ new jersey, actually. I DID ask a colleague (new favorite word!) if it was inappropriate and he said not (exact response: “I don’t care!”) so I went ahead and sent it out.
anyway, the blogworthy part of this exciting story occurred when one of my coworkers stopped by and asked if I’ve been running. I wasn’t sure if he’d seen my inappropriate solicitation for donations, but turns out he had, and was just stopping by to say that yeah, it LOOKED like I’ve been running, because I look great. Well! I look great! If I’d known running was such an overall positive experience, maybe I would have started doing it a long time ago! ha!
(and for the record, this coworker is a gracious family man of an engineer. it was very nice of him to say.)
Lady, it’s not just the running that has done it. Not that running doesn’t rock (because it totally does), but give yourself some credit. You look great because you’ve been putting in the time consistently. If you don’t remember, you’ve been in a 3x a week workout challenge with me and Johanna since March! That stuff pays off sooner or late and it’s about time some people started noticing how great you look.
you’re right: it’s not the running, it’s the public accountability! you are very kind to ignore the good month and a half where I didn’t work out for poop, and also to gloss over how for the first month I was counting my physical therapy appointments as cardio.