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WELL WE ARE BACK AT IT, AND ADDING RUNNING INTO THE MIX! WE HAVE DISCOVERED THAT THE TRACK AT OUR LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL IS LIGHTED AND AVAILABLE FOR USE NICE AND EARLY IN THE MORNING, SO THERE WE WERE THIS MORNING GETTING READY TO RUN. WE COMPLETED OUR FIRST LAP WALKING TO WARM UP AND THEN STOPPED TO STRETCH, AND ON TO THE TRACK COMES THIS MAN ASKING "DO YOU HAVE A TRACK PASS?, I AM THE MAN IN CHARGE AND YOU NEED A PASS!" AT FIRST I THOUGHT HE WAS TOTALLY SERIOUS, BUT THIS NICE MAN WAS JUST WELCOMING US TO THE EARLY MORNING TRACK GROUP. HE WAS AN OLDER MAN AND TOLD US HE HAD BEEN COMING HERE EARLY IN THE MORNING FOREVER, AND THAT HE WAS GLAD TO SEE US YOUNG LADIES HERE WORKING OUT TAKING CARE OF OURSELVES. I PERSONALLY LIKED THE "YOUNG" PART. HE TOLD US THAT FIVE YEARS AGO HE USED TO RUN 5 MILES 5 TIMES A WEEK, BUT THAT ON THIS VERY TRACK 5 YEARS AGO HE HAD A HEART ATTACK, AND THANK GOODNESS SOMEONE ELSE WAS AT THE TRACK AND WAS ABLE TO GET HIM HELP. HE STRESSED HOW IMPORTANT IT IS TO START WHILE YOU ARE YOUNG. HE GAVES US THE HIGHLIGHT OF WHO THE OTHER WALKERS WERE WE WOULD PROBABLY SEE EVERY MORNING WE CAME AND WISHED US WELL AND WAS OFF FOR HIS WALK. HE MADE US FEEL VERY WELCOME AND JUST REAFFIRMED THAT WE WERE IN THE RIGHT PLACE AND ON TRACK! WHAT A NICE DAY TO START RUNNING!! NOW WE ARE STARTING SLOW MIND YOU. WE WALK 3/4 OF THE LAP AND RUN A 1/4. OUR GOAL IS TO BE UP TO A LAP WITHIN 4 WEEKS AND HOPE IT JUST GETS EASIER FROM THERE. MY BODY IS DEFINATELY TELLING ME, "GIRLFRIEND YOU HAVE GOT TO LET GO OF THOSE EXTRA POUNDS!!" AND MY RESPONSE IS THEY ARE ON THERE WAY OUT!!!!