My running journal!

It is May 9^th, 2012 and I have realized in the past few weeks that I need to be getting in shape if I have any real desire to join the military in a year when I graduate. (At this point I am leaning toward the Air Force). I am now closing in my Junior Year at North Forsyth High School and have not ran any kind of long distances since the mandatory mile Freshman Year. For the past school year I have taken Weight Training, and have really built up some muscle, and will continue to do some kind of weight lifting through summer and Senior Year. (Like P90X with a friend of mine). But now I need to work on my running. I run about a 10-12 minute mile right now, depending on the time of day, the heat, etc. At this point, I cannot run a full mile without stopping to try and breathe. I have a ton of work ahead of me, and I know it will at times become hard and I will want to stop and cry and scream in frustration. So I started this journal to continually encourage myself to keep working hard. I cannot quit; I know for a fact that this is the path God has led me to and I cannot stop. I want to become a doctor through the military, I know this is my path in life; I can walk through the middle of the Military History section in the bookstore looking for a book and end up sitting in the floor with books strewn all around me and I just become so overwhelmed with emotion knowing that I have finally found my place in life. So this is the start of my new beginning. If everything goes well, I could be leaving for any kind of Basic Training once I graduate highschool.