40 minutes of awesome pain!

Today was yet another milestone in my effort to recover from some lingering patellar tendonitis.  Until this week I had been splitting my run into two runs, one on the anti gravity treadmill and one on the ground, each lasting only about a half hour.  After meeting with my trainer today and discussing how another week of running had passed with the pain still absent we decided to up the stakes!   So today started two weeks of running for 40 minutes, all outside.  The only pain I was feeling  was the pain of being out of shape, and the boiling temperatures which have been hovering right around 100 degrees, and that is before you throw in the humidity!  But barring a heat stroke or side cramp everything has been exceedingly great.  It always feels nice to be reminded just how easy it is to let things slip.  It keeps us grounded, and forces us to challenge ourselves everyday.  On that note, I pose a challenge to anyone reading this:  Ask yourself, what do you desire more than anything?  Once you have an answer, make a positive change, take a step in the right direction, go get whatever it may be that you are desiring.