Tonight, while running on the treadmill.
Wait. Get back here. Yes, you are reading Rebecca' blog. Ok.
Tonight, while running on the treadmill, my ipod fell of it's perch and got pulled underneath the track. I thought all was doomed but I was able to recover it without anyone's help.
So I am on night #2 [in a row] of running.
One of my
things to do before I turn 30 is to run a half-marathon and there is no time like the present to become
accustomed to running.
I have this strange abhorrence [yet infatuation] with running. I grew up running, practicing all summer for our school's annual Cross Country. When I crossed the great divide into 7th grade, I was assigned to one of the intramural girls' teams at my school. It was the Panthers. A few of my fellow Panthers read here [hello
Andrea,
Sharon, and Hannah....and maybe my coach, too???]
So I don't know what their remembrance of me and running is but I will tell you what my remembrance is. I disliked it. Christians aren't supposed to hate so I can't say that I hate running. But I disliked it. Greatly. I love being active. I love playing volleyball. But I just disliked running.
Well, my sophomore year of college, I had decided that the PE workouts took too long if I wanted to walk for my workouts so I decided to run. I actually experienced what people call the "runners high." I truthfully did. But that didn't last much longer than my sophomore year and I can't even guarantee that I ran my entire sophomore year.
However. Running a half marathon sounds like a great challenge for me. I would love to run on a regular basis but have never gotten up the effort to do it on my own. Hopefully, typing this out will give me the motivation to continue to run knowing that
all of you are reading this.
I think it would be best to run a 5k and then a 10k [one or both, it doesn't matter] before attempting the half-marathon. I don't even have any races picked out yet. I'm just running for the present time.
Running. I'm still trying to convince myself that I'm actually doing this!
