Feelin' great today. I have managed 2 complete weeks of making to all scheduled gym days and all scheduled 5K training days. Woot!
I still feel like I must be the clumsiest runner around, but I guess that is just how I roll, or in this case - plod. Perhaps gracefulness may come someday.
I am planning on doing swim lessons this summer and am pretty darned excited at the prospect. The city of Austin has great programs for all ages. It is kind of funny for an island born baby who spent countless hours in any water I could find while growing up to need swim lessons. But the open water swim event in the triathlon is daunting to me, so it is time to get busy learning the necessary skills.
Well I am almost to my destination - lunch and rescuing the bike from where I left it downtown last night. Let's all say a small prayer to the bike gods that it is still there with all wheels attached.
I have been trying to talk Mel into contributing to my little endeavor here, so perhaps next time there will be a post from her here. She is on a similar journey and I may even be able to talk here onto a bike sometime soon ;)
See y'all
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Friday, March 19, 2010
Thursday, March 4, 2010
March Madness: Or why I am wearing pink shoes.
So I talked my lovely partner into training for a 5K (training started
today). In preperation for the months of work we went and got fitted
for actual running shoes. This was a new and humbling experience for
me. Buying shoes has, for me always been about the look of them. You
go to the store, find the coolest looking pair in your price range and
buy them - usually in the wrong size cause they were out of them but
hey I will just wear extra socks or fall down a bit, no big.
Apparently that is not how it works. No, a very pleasent gentleman
makes you roll up your pants, walk for him, run for him, and then he
brings out shoes that are good for your feet. 3 pairs to choose from,
which all feel a bit weird after wearing ill fitting, hand me down
sneaks for so long. So after much deliberation and wearing two
different shoes at the same time, I finally find the ones that I
determine are the best feeling. Of course, they are the pink ones. For
those of you who know even a little bit know that I hate pink. It was
funny listening to the salesman try to tell me they are really red, or
melon, or any other euphamism for the color pink. So anyway, today I
rocked pink sneaks at the gym. At least I rocked them. Oh, did you
know that there are socks that are foot specifc. My new ones have
little R's or L's on 'em. Cool!
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today). In preperation for the months of work we went and got fitted
for actual running shoes. This was a new and humbling experience for
me. Buying shoes has, for me always been about the look of them. You
go to the store, find the coolest looking pair in your price range and
buy them - usually in the wrong size cause they were out of them but
hey I will just wear extra socks or fall down a bit, no big.
Apparently that is not how it works. No, a very pleasent gentleman
makes you roll up your pants, walk for him, run for him, and then he
brings out shoes that are good for your feet. 3 pairs to choose from,
which all feel a bit weird after wearing ill fitting, hand me down
sneaks for so long. So after much deliberation and wearing two
different shoes at the same time, I finally find the ones that I
determine are the best feeling. Of course, they are the pink ones. For
those of you who know even a little bit know that I hate pink. It was
funny listening to the salesman try to tell me they are really red, or
melon, or any other euphamism for the color pink. So anyway, today I
rocked pink sneaks at the gym. At least I rocked them. Oh, did you
know that there are socks that are foot specifc. My new ones have
little R's or L's on 'em. Cool!
--
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