Joggers bounce up and down at stoplights-Runners just stand there looking pissed.

Saturday, May 14, 2011

11 Miles

I need new shoes. Even though these ARE new shoes, they don’t work. Today I started training for the Disneyland half marathon.  I actually have to start buckling down and get going on this running thing. Because now I have no choice. Unless I want to get picked up by the little golf cart man for being too slow and be disqualified I have to start training. And I think we did REALLY well today. We went 11 miles and I really don’t think I slowed down until the last 2 miles and that was because my feet were just throbbing. I have blisters on what seems like the entire bottoms of my feet.  Suck it Asics you are NOT my favorite brand of shoes. I am officially disqualifying you.
Highlights of the run:
1.       Seeing a huge caterpillar hanging on a bush branch.
2.       Seeing a neon blue bird.
3.       Seeing a red duck.
4.       Watching a car get pulled over on the freeway.
5.       The beautiful weather.
6.       Chatting with Alma on a Saturday morning.
7.       New painted mile markers on the Green River trail
Lowlights of the run:
1.       Blisters. Lots of them. All over.
2.       Eating bugs. Lots of them. All over.
3.       Sore back fat
4.       Sore front fat
5.       Holding my pee for 5 miles because I’m afraid of the porta potty
6.       Rude bicyclists, like always
7.       Thinking in my brain “Why do I do this?”

Until the next blister or lost toenail...

Heather