Off and Running

No really, I am off and running. How did this happen you ask!? I am not sure either! When my darling best friend Darla approached me with the idea of us getting in shape and learning to run using a 13 week program with the overall goal of running a 10k at the end of April....I thought she was crazy!

Then I realized that I had absolutely no good excuse to not do this! Sure I haven't run a single day since oh....high school..but that doesn't mean that I am not physically capable of doing it! And yah, I HATE, no rather, LOATHE running, but why should that stop me right? So after carefully trying to think of many crafty excuses to kindly tell Darla that I think she was smoking crack and there is no way in HADES that I am capable of running a 10k, I decided that I had had enough of the lame excuses and decided to believe in my ability to complete the 13 week training program and run a 10k.

So I said yes, yup, ok, sure, will do, absolutely, can't wait! :) Maybe not the can't wait part, but I have decided to embark on this journey with my darling darla and get fit and svelte (as Darla would say) and set this ambitious goal for myself. 10k run in April. Wow!

So I am in week two of my training and I am still hating every minute of it. Yup, every minute. My legs burn and ache, my lungs feel as though they may ignite on fire and implode, I can barely speak while "running" and I "run" so slow that school children walk faster than me. But after my "runs" I feel great that I have completed another one. I have even gone so far as to purchase yoga pants for running in, a running jacket, VERY expensive running shoes, which have since given me a MASSIVE and painful blister, created a "running music" play list on my iPOD, and completed my training runs even in the rain!! That is how hard core I am.

So although I need to let my massive and painful blister heal for a few days, rest assured, I will put back on the torturous running shoes, break them in so blisters wont happen again, and keep on running!