cool runnings

ran in central park today, 2 miles, yeah baby! My first of many runs along this route, hopefully. It was frightfully cold, at 41 degrees and windy, my least favorite weather, but I had a date to run so that kept me honest. I mentioned to my running date my theory of thinking motivation- or more appropriately my usage of fantasizing to up my heart rate to match the speed my legs need to go. He laughingly called it my porno motivation. Hmpfh. Let's see how many fantasies he features in now!
So a little sore, but feel good to have done it, and certainly the most so far.

Bring it

Just to prove that the doldrums don't rule my life, they simply sway all the elections, I DID run today, 1 mile up hill. 15 minutes including walking for warm-up. I also did minimal arms and legs, and sat in the steam room with all my clothes on. I slept relatively late, and had a hard time waking up even while running, but I have high hopes for good times tonight, so I am waking up in spurts. When I was running, at about .75 mile I started to really slow down, and felt too tired to keep going. But then my mind wandered away from the mirror reflection, past the 40 blaring TV screens and even dodged the piped 80s classics to settle on the image of curls- curls hanging like babylon, looping around nibblest ears, curls under and through my fingertips. The curls of the fella I'm seeing tonight, though the prospect of touching curls is far off, considering our past. But the curls floated in front of me, and before I knew it I was bumping against the treadmill bar, running too fast for the rotating ground beneath me. I punched in a higher speed, and ran the rest of the mile catching my legs up to my skippin heartbeat. I felt guilty only for a second; so my runner's high is passion. Big surprise. I look forward to a motivating evening.

On your mark

I ran for the first time in a long time today, in an effort to begin my triathlon training. So I started with a mile, up hill. Well, up tread-hill. It took me 13 minutes, though I walked for the 1st 3 minutes, so I suppose that's a 10 minute mile. Very pathetic. I felt I could've kept going after the mile, but not by much. Thank god for the basketball cuties in their skins playing in front of me, or I wouldn't have made the 1/2 mile. Motivation is key.
I also made a google calendar and strategized a running schedule while on jury duty yesterday, so my cell phone will ping me into guilty remberance of my goal. Jai and Matt seem to be enthusiastic to get running too, so hopefully I'll have the guilt of friends, (what you non-new yorkers call "support" I believe) to push me along. Planning to run 2wice in the work week and 1 on the weekends for 35 minutes. Planning is key.
And of course, because I am a woman, I bought running shoes as the final push. And because I am a teacher, I bought them at Payless. Cheap shoes are key.