Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Out of Hibernation



He's still hibernating.  I am not.
Long winter.  I have not been running.  I saw this Color Run 5K and thought, oh my, that would be fun.  I told the runners about it at school.  Oh yes, sounds great – let’s do it!  Then I forgot about it.  Darn, if I didn’t get a FB message from one of them – we signed up.  Sign up.  Signed up quickly, which was a good thing, because the 1st race closed before the first day’s registration was over.  So cool I’m signed up – but wait that means I’m signed up!  I have to starting running and get in shape to do this thing.  I am not one of these girls that can just pick up and run 3 miles after not running for a while.  I can’t even run 1 mile after a long hiatus.  So even though my friend, Mr. Groundhog is still warm in his burrow, I got myself to the park and got through 2 miles with a lot of walking mixed in.  It was super cold.  The sun was out but the wind was whipping.  It was brisk to say the least.  Then tonight I jumped on the treadmill.  (I HATE THE TREADMILL).  I got through 3 miles.  The last mile I did one of the programmable things where it sets your pace.  I had never done it before – kind of slow but okay.  I have about two months until the Color Run.  On MY mark, get ready, GO!