October 11

I willingly got up at 6:15am ON A SATURDAY to go for a group run at Ed Austin Park. There is a free timed 5k there every week and a couple friends of mine go regularly. I’m proud of myself for many reasons: Getting out of bed before daylight, and going to a place I was unfamiliar with to meet people I didn’t know to run a distance I didn’t think I could do IN THE RAIN. Ok, it wasn’t really raining, but it WAS misting, which is close enough to raining as far as I’m concerned. But I did it! I was aiming for a 25-minute run and walking the rest, but I only made it 22 minutes. I did not anticipate hills. And people who actually live near hills would sniff their noses at me because the things I am referring to as hills are hardly noticeable unless you’re running on them and you never run on hills. I think I could have done the full 25 minutes, but I was mad that it was harder than I anticipated, and I blame the DAMN HILLS. That are not really hills, but they’re as much hills as mist is rain. I planned on walking the rest, but I did run a bunch of it anyway, and finished the 5k in just over 42 minutes, which is actually right on track with my usual 5k finishing time. So yeah. Bottom line is I rule.