quick post

I have class in ten minutes, so here's a very quick post;
I just wanted to say, that yesterday I think I accomplished a milestone feat in my life.
Yesterday, I was the most truly athletic that I have been, ever.
Woohoo I won't grow fat when I'm old!
Anyway, what happened was,
I got onto a treadmill,
and ran for the next hour.

Well, to be specific, here's what I did, in order:

5 minutes of walking
10 minutes of running
5 walking
5 running
5 walking
10 running
5 walking
5 running
8 walking
8 running
5 walking

So in total, it was an hour and a minute exactly.
Oh yes and by the by, each period of walking was 2 minutes of placid walking followed by 3 minutes of powerwalking.
The great thing about the treadmills here is that if you place your hands on a metal bar thing, it records your heart rate for you; so during the walking periods, I could make sure my heart rate didn't go too high. The display also helped me figure out at what rate I should breathe so that my heart and diaphragm don't start going into spasms.

I mean, this actually isn't such a strenuous run for the majority of people; it just makes me really happy because first of all, I've always been extremely unathletic, so I'm happy with myself for having worked my way up to this point, where I can powerwalk/run for an entire hour. I would never have been able to do that as little as three months ago. Hence, I'm proud of my progress, and pleased to see the tangible evidence that exercising is actually doing something to benefit me.
Furthermore, I always assumed that because of my asthma, I couldn't do anything athletic. This wasn't just a superficial belief, it was because every time I started doing something active, I would start wheezing and the asthmatic symptoms would come back.
Yesterday during that hour of running, I actually did not wheeze at all, and was able to even consciously control my breathing the whole time!

Even more than the act of running, that fact made me ridiculously happy.
I feel good.

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