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Running was never my thing

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So I felt the need to share about something that has changed my life. For starters I thought I should mention "athletic" was never a word to describe me. If you ask people who know what I'm like, I'm sure they would say things like she is funny, or a people-person but definitely not athletic. As someone who has struggled with weight the majority of her life, deciding at the beginning of the new year to go on diet was nothing new. In January of 2014 I decided to start running. I know...insane right? It seemed like every person's new goal was to run a 5 k or do some spartan race. So I wanted to see what all the hype was about. So I e-mailed a friend of mine who was a runner to ask her a few basic questions, like... Is it safe for me to running at my weight? Or What kind of shoes should I wear? She was so kind enough to answer all my questions. But she also told me about a running group she was a part of on Facebook. She said it was a group of Mom's who were al...