Frustrations and Victories seems like an odd title for this entry. It was a bag of mixed emotions today. I have trouble with my left knee and have due to so many years of being overweight. So I went in search for a knee brace and bought one at one store yesterday. Put it on and it was too tight. I had remembered when I had a flair up the last time that my husband had contacted a local medical supply place about a knee brace. She told him to just come on in and they would measure and order one for me. This is where the frustration part comes in: I went there today and I explained to the girl that I had started jogging more with my walking and was needing a pull on brace for my knee, but the ones at the stores were too tight. She looked at me and said...yeah I guess so. She then proceeded to tell me that the ones they have probably wouldn't be anything that I would need. Just wrap your knees with ace bandages and that should work. Needless to say I was very frustrated and my feelings hurt just a bit. So off I went and purchased my ace bandages. Sat in the parking lot and wrapped my knee and headed to the nature center.
I hadn't planned on jogging any just because my knee was bothering me. But my frustrations were just nagging at me. How many others, when they are mad, will do something they hadn't planned on doing. Well off I went. Jogging is how I started off. Throughout the 2 miles, I managed to run a good bit. The more I would run, the better I felt. So I would start pushing myself a little bit harder. Well what has taken me 42 minutes, I finished today in 39 minutes.
The trail that I am doing is not an easy flat trail...so to know that I managed to knock off 3 minutes off of my time made me feel really good!!!!
So when you get frustrated, don't turn to food...use your frustrations to push yourself to do something good for your health!!!
Keep on keeping on!
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