Running or at least trying!

I wrote this a week or so back, just for got to post it....opps new blogger mistake!

Well folks, I have started back to my running. I never start this early in the year because I HATE running in the cold but I keep catching glimpses in the mirror of my upper thighs and am not happy at all with what I see. Maybe it’s just the paleness, whatever it maybe it’s not pretty.

I am a person who I hope if I say I’m going to do something by golly I do it. Well this week I started running. It stays lighter longer which has allowed me to do this. I started Monday, I have a friend who I walk with everyday that we can and we have the best time. We talk about everything and I mean everything, but I love it and I love her. It makes exercising more fun. We’ve been walking 4 miles each time we get together, which in my eyes is pretty good, and its good just not enough for the upper thighs so I talked her into running not all 4 miles we’re going to start slow and then build up of course. We walked 3 miles and ran one on Monday. It was rough but we did it. My legs felt weak, my lungs felt like they were caving in and I felt awful after we were done, but I knew it was good for me and that hopefully I’d get easier. I use to run with my college roommates every day we were idiots the 3 of us would run no matter what time it was. If it was 1 am and we hadn’t run that day we’d go for it all together 4 miles. We’d always give each other high fives after we were done which I started. I loved it I needed the praise when we were done. Well I high fived Rachel after we were done on Monday, not sure if she got the same since of accomplishment out of the run that I did. If I have someone running next to me and they are still going strong I am going to keep going strong, I won’t stop until they do, it’s just my thing, it’s my motivation. Unfortunately my friend Rachael hates to run so I may have to figure something else out to keep us both running. On Tuesday Rachael was running late, she had a good excuse, so I met at our regular time and ran it by myself. It was awful, I was freezing, my lungs hurt from the cold air, and it was just downright painful because who knows when the last time I had run a mile besides on Monday of course, but I did it and that is what matters. Wednesday it rained so we took a day off and then back to it Thursday, I had high hopes since we had run twice that we could step it up a notch and run 1.5 or 2 miles. Boy was I wrong, we barely made it around once, I think because it was colder yesterday but yet again we did it. I hope I am able continue this and it gets easier, I’ll keep you posted.

Rachael has a blog of her own and she describes “our” jogging in a much funnier way. Take a look if you have a chance. http://www.rachaelstep.blogspot.com/