First 5K

Vickie and I ran for the Boobies. Vic's first 5K and she kicked butt at 36:42!!!!

where I want to be when I grow up

On the eve of my upcoming birthday I had an epiphany...I'm going to be 28 and that means I only have two more years before I'm 30!!! *gasps and cue the dramatic music* I whine to myself....but, but I thought I'd be so cool by now!!! With the new quarter not even three weeks behind me I decided it was about time I started taking my life more seriously than my studies (please no one tell my advisor this).

As a result of my impending birthday I have decided it is time to meet some of those goals I set myself when I was like 12. By the time I am thirty I wanted to...

• be able to speak another language
  
• completed a triathlon
  
• written a novel
• be healthy (um, what does that mean?)
• play a musical instrument
  

There are more but I think those few are enough for now...no sense in overwhelming myself now is there?

So, three weeks ago I started on the list above. So far I've started cooking more delicious and nutritions foods (like, yesterday I made a delicious Mexican Bean Salad...so good!) . I also started working out three times a week and running.

While I'm nowhere near meeting the above goals I have at least started something. That's worth a little bit of celebrating right? RIGHT?!?!

New shoez

I bought new running shoes today.

Then I ran up all but one of the 8 blocks of the hill from hell.

YAY!

on being a failure

Dude, this sucks. So I went for a "run" the other day and it really hurt and I mostly walked. I wanted to cry. All I could think about were the good old days (think last summer) when I was running 5 to 7 mile runs no problem and now I can't go around the block without my shines feeling like I'm running through fire!

Slowly but surely I guess, right??