I don’t have feeling to run today!
No mood for running but I am going to go out and do my best… My plan to run 60min!
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Maybe… But I did manage to stay alive for 45 minutes.
Is it ever going to be spring?
And what is the cost??
I have been running for over three years now, I started to run at the beginning just for my health because my heart was very weak after suffering from Anemia, but after a while I start feeling stronger and stronger so I thought why not try to do a small competition just to see if I have some speed, or maybe it is just in my mind that I feel strong and if I am capable to come top 30 in the crowd of 200 runners. I did my first competition 5 km Spring fever in Woodlands, Texas 2008, It was a different feeling between training and competing, then it feels like you are giving everything you have, I couldn’t breathe, my legs was getting too heavy because of the lactic acid, I wanted to lift my legs and run faster but I couldn’t because that was the maximum speed I could do at this time but I continued running even feeling very miserable and thinking in my mind what did I get my self in to… I came in second at this competition, but first at my age group with a time of 21.22 and it felt wonderful and I thought ok maybe this is what I have to be doing? Train to become an elite runner. 
I did suffer from Anemia for many years before realizing that I have it, because I felt weak and exhausted all the time. Walking up the stairs was a very hard job my heart started to beat very fast and I felt like I am going to die every time I did any effort, I didn’t feel any circulation of blood in my legs and it did always hurt when I walked fast. Maybe that was because I had a bad diet, eating unhealthy food and the lack of vitamins. It was strange but while I had Anemia I had mostly feeling to eat ice, I don’t know why but every time I think about it my mouth started to melt!! One day I realized maybe it is the day to visit a doctor because this is not normal to feel like that for a person in my age, so I visited a doctor and he advised me to do some blood samples to see what I really had. After the results were ready I discovered that I had a very low level of red blood cells. The doctor told me that I am lucky that I came and didn’t just let it be because that could lead me to serious heath issues, he advised me to buy Iron tablets called Ferro-Grand and take it two times a day for the period of two months, unfortunately it did not help too much but then I discovered this: Hem Iron Complex 25mg. That is about 3 times stronger than the Ferro-Grand and it helped a lot. After eating this mineral I started to feel better and I stopped having this feeling to eat ice.
I didn’t run anything when I was living in Morocco but when I moved to the US in the end of 2006 I started to run slowly and it really hurt very much because I was still having the symptoms of Anemia white tongue, white nails and white eye lids. I hated running but I know I have to do it to get healthy. After a while maybe one month my body started to get adjusted to running and I started enjoying it. 
My name is Asmaa and I am originally from Morocco. When I was small around 8 years old I used to run with my friends sometimes and I did really enjoy it because I could run hour after hour all day long but never felt tired, and in the back of my mind I thought maybe one day I will be a very well known runner as Hicham El Guerrouj or Saïd Aouita. But as the years passed, I didn’t have any support from anybody to keep me going forward on realizing my dreams so I gave up running.
As a child without support you can’t get direction without help, and because I was very skinny so many people told me that I will kill my self if I keep running because I am going to get skinnier and skinnier…Because in Morocco being skinny is NOT a good thing.
When I got older I moved to the U.S and there I started to run little by little, It didn’t feel at all as I felt when I was small, so I really hated it in the beginning but later after a while I got used to it. 
