Inertia

So I woke up this morning to the sun shining on the snow outside. It's been three days of snow days and it is always a blessing to see the beauty after the storm. I've been lucky to live in so many different types of environments in my life...

In Florida I got to experience the tremendous fury of a hurricane and what a real thunderstorm is like. We used to watch the lightening from our garage.

Japan brought the most amounts of snow you could possibly fathom in one night. And with it the Sapporo Snow festival got built and is still one of the most amazing things I've ever seen!

North Carolina had some tremendous ice storms! I woke up one morning and my car looked like an ice sculpture. This pic is from that ice storm:




And Michigan, Michigan has all sorts, but in my adult life I get to spend a snow storm inside with my baby and then go running after it's all done. This is awesome!



So I have decided to run the River Bank Run in May... today was the first day that I actually started training. I feel like God was giving me the snow days to really relax in my home - and lots got done, even the junk drawer got cleaned! So to wake up to a beautiful morning and challenge myself to actually begin the River Bank journey, was AWESOME! Running is HARD... and it takes everything in me to keep going. But I have discovered my secret word:


INERTIA


It's Newton's first and coolest law... and well I think it's true for running. Once you get going... you HAVE to keep going :) I guess as my mass decreases, my inertia should too... but I'll defy physics with that one!

A new goal!

So I have two friends that run - a lot - Theresa and Jill. I went to Theresa's 30th birthday party last Saturday where a ton of her runner friends were celebrating with her... and Jill was there too... and they were all talking about running (and other stuff, they're not crazy one topic people). And it got me to thinking - I used to run, I used to run really well. I was recruited to run cross-country at my middle school in 7th grade simply because I looked like a runner... I ran from that day on until I graduated from high school. Then I danced - and dancing was fabulous! But I don't have access to Calvin's dance studio anymore, nor do I have the youth or agility to do what I did in "those days" (When you turn 30 you can say "those days" because you are no longer in your twenties). What I do have access to is a great pair of running shoes, thank you Race for the Cure, and a winter looming large ahead of me like a blanket keeping me in doors.

So I say YES to the shoes and toss the blanket aside and say YES to the freezing cold and training through the winter - YES I will do something I've never done before! YES - here I come River Bank Run - 25K - 15.6miles, further than I've ever run in my LIFE.

Deep Intake of Breath... am I crazy? Maybe - but posting this makes it real.

155 more days.