For realz, for realz...I promise

I always do things the wrong way. I skip ahead to the end and then backtrack and figure out the in between. When I was younger, I would read the last paragraph of a book before the first. When I was in high school, I used to get in trouble because I would have my WPI (Worcester Polytechnical Institute) educated brother teach me the shortcuts for Calculus before I figured out the in between steps that teacher always want you to learn before you get to the advanced shortcuts. Then I’d have to back track and learn all the nitty gritty.

Apparently that’s what I do with running as well. As you know I started out with a marathon. (ok that’s a lie I ran a 12K before that). But regardless, I’ve never in my life run a 5K, a 10K or a half marathon. So now I’m attempting to learn the nitty gritty – I’m training for my first half marathon, which is less than 2 months away.

So why? Why is the girl whose last post (which was several months ago, I’m so sorry) was about how much I hate being cold and running now training for a Feb 28^th half marathon in the peak of winter. Honestly, I don’t know. I kinda got an email from B.A. Athletics that said spaces were running out and something in my mind said, stop pretending to do work and grab your credit card, woman, we have a half marathon to sign up for. Also, and those of you who have known me for a while know I loveee free stuff - specifically tshirts. And this half is the first of 3 Cape Cod half marathons that are called “the Cape Cod Half Marathon Trilogy” how cool is that? Best part, those individuals that run all three get a special jacket! A fucking JACKET! Race tees look out, Imma get me a freakin’ coat.

So with visions of windbreakers dancing in my head, I’m back. Yesterday I did my first 4-mile. On the treadmill :/ but still I’m pretty pumped. Although I did realize a few things. 1. Road runs are like two hundred thousand times more fun than treadmill runs and 2. I absolutely cannot watch the Biggest Loser while working out. Something about the combo freaks me out – I don’t know what it is but I almost got physically sick watching it. Everyone else I know LOVES the two. But for me I feel wrong, I feel exposed, I feel sick, I feel REALLY REALLY uncomfortable. I don’t know why and I’m sure in some way this make me a bad person, but it’s true. And the thing that’s so crazy is, after I got home the show was still on so I watched the ending and was like really into it. I guess it’s like how I’m allergic to Tylenol with codeine, but not Tylenol or codeine.

Anyway, I am back to running (THANK GOD) and back to blogging. So Happy New Year, happy running and have a great and amazing day!

Ange