Fit

This week I was supposed to do 4 runs total but only fit in 3. Wednesday was only a mile and today was 2 miles. Both were at 10:30 minute pace which I really can't stand. However the program I'm following his very adamant about one breath every 6-7 steps. I made sure to follow this, and when I do, this is my time. In the past I've pushed it thinking, "I'm an athlete, he (the coach) is talking about couch potatoes that have never done anything". Well now I'm listening to the coach. He's been doing this awhile and he knows what he's doing. I implored wrestlers for 10 years to follow this advice and now I'm finally following it myself.
Last time I talked about what I mean by fat. Today, what I mean by fit.
My senior year of high school I had a football coach whose two basic coaching strategies were screaming and making us run. Up-downs were also very common. Every practice the number of up-downs we had was equal to the number of points we had lost by the previous Saturday. We went 0-10 losing 9 games by double digits. Long story short we were in shape. During wrestling season that year I was never tired after a match. After wrestling season we had a bunch of heifers get out and end up in a neighbor's barn. We didn't have a trailer big enough to get them all back home (something in the neighborhood of 14). Therefore we led them one at a time back up the road. I don't remember exact mileage but I know I was up and down that road a lot, running quite a bit in boots, and wasn't running out of breath. Still in shape. College hit and I was quickly out of shape. 230lbs was my high water mark. At that point I dieted, lost 30lbs and moved down here.
After being in Virginia for about 9 months I met the love of my life, who introduced me to my current infatuation. In truth I only started running because I wanted to spend more time with her. But as I ran I liked it for the exercise more and more.
She convinced me to sign-up for races which fed competitive side.

What I mean by "fat"

I admit I am starting this blog in large part because I have two friends who have started one and I thought it would be fun. It was definitely easy. Keeping up with it will be the challenge, and that's where the title comes in.
I recently started running (again). You see, me keeping up with running is like it is for many who quit smoking. It's easy to start running, I do it all the time. The tough part is sticking with it. What often happens is I get ready for a race, run the race, then slack off and get fat again.
When I use the term "fat" I mean it differently then 95% of the population. I use "fat" in the wrestlers sense of the word. When a wrestler says "I'm fat" that could mean anything from a tenth of a pound to 10 pounds over his or her target weight. Fat is a generic flexible term that can be used as an adjective (I'm fat), a noun (I'm wrestling their Fat), or an adverb (I'm being fat). Fat doesn't refer to BMI, weight, or body fat percentage. Simply put being fat refers to the act or acts which would make one overweight.
So after running the Men's Four Miler, I got fat. Again. And so I've started running. Again. I've literally started with 1 mile at a time.
Monday 9:27
Today 10:28