Those unavoidable Runs

I got my butt out there for a run today. It is amazing how many excuses one creates in order to delay the unavoidable. It seems there is never the right time. Now I see that registering for the Twin Cities 10 Mile Run and paying that $70 something fee was well worth it, because it motivates me to train. After all I don't want to be out there among so many people and probably one of the youngest but yet the slowest. Don't give me wrong, I do regularly run when I exercise in the gym but this, a run 10 miles, from Minneapolis to St.Paul is the farthest distance I have ever even attempted to run. I went out there and had a difficult time running my first 2 miles. I kept on breathing heavily for some reason and couldn't get the appropriate breathing rhythm down. The next 2 miles however went like a breeze, that is, once I turned off the ipod, and started deliberately concentrated on my breathing, I was able to catch get the breathing rhythm down, and started to control my breathing. It's amazing how great it feels to just concentrate on your body and what its telling you during the run, it has the same effect on me as meditation. I must say though, the first mile or two are the worst, that is when one is most likely to quit because it is the hardest. I am not sure why but the body probably is trying to adjust, to the increased demand for oxygen and the vital quick conversion of glucose to energy.