Today is the day before Thanksgiving and I invited William and his wife over for my family's dinner. Before we all sat down for dinner we are going to go for a run the girls are going to run together while we will work on William’s training. The plan is to run 5 miles total, 1 mile to the track, 3 miles around the track, and 1 mile back to the house. This is going to be the longest run he has done to date.
We head out running down the side of the road; I think William was kind of freaked out about it. We have to run down a big hill to get to the track. Running down hill is very hard on the body and William has a history of having bad knees, so I was a little concerned about the possibility of an injury, but he did a great job; he made it over half way down before he had to walk. On the way to the track I tell William he is going to run a 5K today and we are going to time it so we have a gauge for the run in January. I don’t think that William was exactly thrilled about this plan, but he went along with it anyways! Before we start the timed run we did some stretches. William’s first mile was fairly quick then he hit the wall.
So while we walked it out we discussed William’s lack of motivation. I posed the question of what he thinks about while he is sitting around the house feeling unmotivated. I feel like we are getting some answers as to why he has had so much difficulty in losing weight by himself. He revealed to me that he is afraid of doing anything because he does not want to disappoint anyone, including himself. I asked him if sitting around was letting himself down? His answer was “No, I am not doing anything to let myself down.” I told him that sitting around was in fact letting his family and friends down. He was shorting his family because of the unhealthy life he was living. We also talked about his eating habits. He admitted to me that he does need to step up and make dinner nightly so he and his wife do not have to get dinner at fast food places. I hope that these little talks are getting to William and that he understands that I really just want to help him achieve his life goals. I can only imagine how hard this task is and on top of it having someone else blog about everything we do must make it all the more difficult. I am hoping that this blog will really help William to see that he can do this if he just puts his mind to it and gets moving!
After we got moving again we needed to do another lap, but William was wanting to head back to the house, as we got to the starting point also the place to leave the track I threw my water bottle behind me and said” Come on man! I dropped my water bottle. We need to do another lap because I can’t walk back to get it I can only go this way.” He chuckled and started to cuss me, then started running. We got to the last turn and I told him he needed to sprint the last little bit. He ran like he was being chased, it was awesome! I picked up my water bottle and we walked to the road and started running home. We ran to the hill, walked up it, as we got closer to the driveway I told him he was going to sprint one more time for a strong finish; I don’t think he liked that idea either, but he did it! When he finished I asked the ever so important question to gauge how hard he had worked, “Do you feel like you could puke?” He was so out of breath he could barely respond. I knew he had done a good work out! We stretched again and called it a day.
As we were walking into the house William put his hand on my shoulder and said ”Thanks man” I was glad to hear those words, because he did not have a very pleasant look on his face after the run. I was thinking he was not happy with me.
Over all he did great, had it not been for that wall he hit he would have completed the plan. We also talked about doing other activities other than running to find that spark. He mentioned doing football drills, playing racquet ball, and biking. I think next week I will find us a new activity to do. All the while keeping our goal of completing his first 5K in our sights!
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