Running In Place

Yup I am! It only takes me a minute of thinking back over how I spent my summer not running to get that big ol’ stupid happy feeling about running. Especially since it’s so nice and cool now (40’s - 50’s), especially since I alway seem to have my beautiful little trail to myself now and I love the solitude, and especially since I’m running a whole darn mile without stopping!! Actually a little more than a mile - woo hoo! What happened was I boosted my running time from 8 minutes to 12 minutes and the mile came and went - I didn’t even think about it at first until I saw the mile marker and I was like, “oh shit - look what I did!” So I took a 2 minute walk break after the first 12 minutes and turned around and did it again!

I have done that for the past 2 days and my paces have been between 10:33 - 10:55 for each mile. I know because garmin told me so. That’s fun too! (though I keep thinking “is that possible????).

So I’m (probably annoyingly) happy. In August I was running 15 seconds to 1 minute walking (and grateful to do that!). Now I’m thinking this running thing just might work out after all and I’m thinking this is going to be a great winter, and I’m thinking I’m going to rock the Boilermaker next year, and and and! The universe is good.