Community Run

So throughout the whole year this was actually the first time I have done the community run. At first I was unmotivated to do anything it was Tuesday and had just come back to school from a long weekend, it was also a flex day and on top of that the bad news had arrived that the band trip had been cancelled. Although I was not going it still put me in a awful and sad mood, I was honestly not ready to do anything that day. As we started and we got outside it was hot and i felt like dying. I'm going to admit at the beginning I didn't really try. I walked a lot and only jogged to get past the crowd of people all walking so slowly ahead of me, when the path cleared up I walked and still was in the mindset of "this is pointless, I just want to go home" until well I saw people ahead of me start running... and my friends and I had this confused looked dawned upon our faces. It then hit us that teachers were ahead and that's why people started running, so my friends and I started running. As we passed Mr. Neufeld he told us to keep pace and jog instead of run when ever we see teachers which I would admit was kind of funny because that is what we were doing right then and there, but as we passed him we kept going and took his advice because well I realized that it doesn't matter if it's a flex day, or that its hot outside, or that i should be sad because something was cancelled. What I should be doing was putting effort into it, because even though its a short day and I'm lazy it's still a fitness day and I should take advantage of it, especially because its almost the end of the school year, I should put all the sadness away and take it out on the run. From there I was put in the mindset of I can do it because no ones stopping me, like i usually am. So I paced myself the rest of the way and only stopped for a breather once after passing the teachers, when it came time for the downhill part Abby and I took Mr. Neufs advice and went as quietly as we could down the hill rather than going full speed and stomping all the way with no control. We made it to the school and then the bell rang but it was okay because it was lunch anyways. Although we were sweaty it felt good to know that I had changed my mindset during the course of the run because if i didn't I wouldn't have continued the day with that mindset. Next time i go for a run or any activity like this i would like to start with that positive mindset and maintain it throughout the course of the run, I didn't get any footage or anything but I think it went well for my first community run.