Getting started wasn't easy ( A Runner's Past) The Road to Killing HE FAT

Getting started was not easy.....The road to killing He Fat was a long road......More like an obstacle course....Exercising regularly can be a series of mental and emotional hurdles.
One of the biggest hurdles was  trying not to dwell on the past.....since what I used to be able to do became a big hurdle to where I was now.......Constantly taunting me and pointing at me .......HE FATing me....
I had to get past that and it took awhile.  The journey had already begun before the HE FAT incident. But wouldn't finally become a mission until almost a year later when I would Run (air quotes)   my first 5K in years

The PAST
A little back story.....I used to run....

(Jr High  9 grade finals ----taking a large  lead in the 1 mile run )

 X-Country and Track and did pretty well  (Despite my version of pre-run stretching being to have a Pepsi from the Soda machine--- I guess bad habits start early).     Now much older and out of shape after being He-Fated by a little kid -getting that guy back was not easy at all.   One of the big hurdles  was battling constantly what I used to be able to do.   (Because I couldn't do that anymore)...I had tried over the years to start running again and it  usually lasted for about 3 weeks before laziness set back in again or I caught a cold that would last a month  and I went straight to the couch when I got home again instead of on a run...
This time it would finally be different...He Fat had to die.....

I think it would be easier if you had never run before to start running for exercise than having this past haunt every single step I took at the start....Back in High School I once ran a 4:36 mile  and in X-country  which is basically a 5K  my best time at the Griffith Park invitational was  15:39.    That is a big mental barrier  because now with every step I was comparing and mentally beating myself up over where I was now compared to back then......

I will continue with my daily exercise stats later in the day.....and next week I will start to chronicle the successful Journey that was the Death of He Fat....