Wait a second... when did I start liking working out?

When did this happen? I loath working out. LOATH it. Always have...

Ok... I'm going to start at the beginning.

I am not a naturally athletically inclined person. I know, weird right? But I'm not. Up until I was in college, I basically played basketball for 3 months a year, and that was kinda it. Then I found Ultimate. And that sounds weird too, but it's true. And even then, through 3.5 years with Tennessee, I rarely worked out outside of practice/leagues/pickup. I didn't have to- you could go 4 days a week playing most summers (well, the first one at least). So I didn't really see the point. When I moved to Atlanta, I did track workouts for a year and a half, but that was mostly a social thing- the running was kind of a bonus. Then I quit doing that because it hurt to run on hard surfaces- still does- then sprained my ankle.

4 months later I started working out again because I felt like I needed to strengthen up everything in my legs so that I wouldn't have recurring ankle injuries. That has helped some, but somewhere along the way working out became cathartic- it became therapy for me. And I didn't really realize that until I started working out again for the first time in weeks yesterday. I mean, once the ankle thing happened I realized I was going to have to workout to play ultimate. HAVE to- I have put my body through too much and not taken very good care of it in the last 8 years to not do outside of ultimate cardio and lifting. But yesterday when I worked out I felt good afterwards. I was able to sleep through the whole night without waking up for the first time in over a week. And I felt better emotionally and physically.

I know you're telling yourself (or rather Annie is, since she's the only one that reads this), "Caroline... working out does all of those things. Everyone knows that". And yes, I realized it too, but sometimes I forget. For the longest time I worked out because it was good for me, because I had to do it to keep playing ultimate, but now? I think I actually enjoy it. When did that happen?