Hiatus

I take the time to make this new blog specifically for my running endeavors ...and then I disappear.  Why do that?  I'll tell you why.  Bronchitis.  Yep, a week before my second 5k race I popped up with a nasty case of bronchitis and the flu...at the same time!  Needless to say I was in no shape to be running, so unfortunately I had to pass on the running and just do the 3k walk that day.  It was fun to watch my friends start the race though from an overpass above the street where they were running.  I gave myself another week to recover and now I'm ready to start training again.  My friend Trish discovered a 1/2 marathon training site for disney so I think I might follow her lead and start doing that.  Any progress is good progress right?  I'm going to go for my first post-bronchitis run today some time....hopefully I'm not worse running than I was before...if that could even be possible.  This seems like a slow process, but I'm confident with signing up/running a 5k each month that I'll get to where I want to be eventually.  Wish me luck!

First 5k ...yikes

It seemed like we had so long to train and then all of a sudden it was March 30th ... the day of our first 5k race.  I was totally nervous and wasn't expecting much.  It's a good thing I didn't expect a lot because it turned out to be a bust.  I yanked my knee within the first quarter mile or so and most certainly did not make for an impressive time to say the least.  In fact, I came in dead last.  I was pretty upset about it to be honest.  I felt pretty embarrassed to be the last person in a group of like 240 people.  That means 239 people finished before me.  Thats a lot.  Then it was pointed out to me that we finished and we finished under an hour, and that should be something to be proud of.  I realized I can't expect to be running amazing times right now with the shape my body's in.  As I work harder and train myself I can only improve from here right?  So, I'm proud of myself (and trish, my running partner) for actually taking the step to even run this race.  The next race is in 2 weeks and I can't wait to see how I progress from now until then.

Starting out...

Imagine you're someone who enjoys watching a lot of tv and taking a lot of naps.  You enjoy zumba but otherwise don't really get a whole lot of other exercise.  Now imagine you wake up one day and decide you want to start running races.  Thats me.  I'll be the first one to tell you that after I had my daughter 6 years ago I really just "let myself go".  I've become totally out of shape and ignored it for a long time.  One day my friend Trish and I decided we needed a goal - and we wanted to become runners.  Now, running might look simple....but that is TOTALLY not true.  To go from sitting around all day to trying to run a distance longer than 15 feet is really a challenge.  It's a torturous process but I keep telling myself that one day I'm going to wake up and run and I'm going to LOVE it.  I just have to keep it up until I get there.  We decided that to stay motivated we had to start running 5k's.  Our plan is to run one every month and hopefully be prepared enough to run Broad Street next year, which is a 10 mile race.  Goals are fun!  So, wish me luck, sit back and observe the show...it's going to be a bumpy ride.