1. Read.
2. Blog more often.
3. Run a 5K by August.
Originally I wanted to simply lose weight this summer. I decided that if that was my only goal, I would most likely drive myself crazy trying to do it. Instead I came up with the list above that aims more at general health, physical and otherwise.
#1 began when I started reading Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol
. It is so far excellent, and slowly becoming just as good as Angels and Demons
and The DaVinci Code
. I would still be continuing in that one except Caitlin bought and read Bossypants by Tina Fey
and I have now picked that up after hearing her cackle while reading it faster than she has read most other books. It is Tina Fey to the very core.
. It is so far excellent, and slowly becoming just as good as Angels and Demons and The DaVinci Code. I would still be continuing in that one except Caitlin bought and read Bossypants by Tina Fey and I have now picked that up after hearing her cackle while reading it faster than she has read most other books. It is Tina Fey to the very core.#2 is being worked on as I write.
#3 is the one that I began this morning and is the reason #2 is happening sooner than I expected. I found a program that is aimed at preparing someone to go from their couch to running a 5K in 9 weeks. I have my doubts, but am attempting it anyway. For no reason I can identify, I have always wanted to be a runner. And now that I have more time to spare than ever before, I am going to fulfill that dream (?). Of course, my spare time happens to coincide with near record setting high temperatures in the swamp that is Mississippi.
So, naturally, I went for my first run this morning at 7 am.
Twenty minutes later I am no more than 30 yards from my front door and sitting on the ground trying not to pass out and/or throw up. Throwing up was less likely since I hadn't eaten breakfast yet and thus I didn't have anything in my system to expel. The passing out was very likely., however. I had forgotten a water bottle and already was bad at staying hydrated regularly. Oh, and it was one thousand degrees outside with two hundred percent humidity. Passing out sounded great.
I hope you are learning a lesson as you read this. The moral of the story is: Don't run outside, unhydrated, water-bottle-less, unathletic, out of shape, over ambitious, well-read, devilishly handsome in Mississippi in June.
(For those of you that might be worried, I survived. The Today Show revived me as I collapsed on our couch for an hour after I hobbled home.)
Needless to say, reaching these three goals this summer may be difficult, but I am as excited as ever to see exactly how far I need to run in order for me to pass out cold.
