remember the presidential test for physical fitness? if you were in middle school during the 80’s i’m guessing you do. of the various activities that we were tested on, there were two that haunted me – were my nemesi (if there is such a word) year in and year out. they were the bar hang and the 12 minute run. without going into too much detail i’ll share this much:
1. i never “hung” for more than .5 second
2. i never ran for 12 minutes
so to find myself on a relatively quiet sunday afternoon running almost a mile in 12 minutes at 32 years of age and still 29lbs away from my goal weight – well let’s just say right along with freddie mercury and the gang i was feeling very much the champion. short term goal is to see if i can run for 14 minutes straight. weeeeeeee. and i’ll just keep eyeballing the bar we have installed in the doorway to the laundry room….
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