Texas Half

So, tonight is the last night of my creative writing class. When starting this class I made a promise to myself that I could not go onto the next class unless I found a job. The classes are kind of expensive, I really should not have even signed up for the first one, but I was desperate to get out of the house.... so I did. But here it is, six weeks later and I still don't have a job, so I am not going to take the next class.

BUT NEVER FEAR! I have devised something else to keep me busy.

You may remember that after Bloomday last year I vowed to never run again. EVER! Okay not really, I said I would run 5K's but that was it. But time has passed and I realized that I really liked TRAINING for the 12K. I follow a lot of blogs where the writers have just finished the Chicago Marathon and it made me really want to start running again.

So I did some research and have decided to run the Texas Half in January. It is probably dumb to start training for a half marathon during the holidays, but whatever. Yesterday I joined a gym and I have my little running graph and put it on the fridge to stare at me.

I think training for this is going to be a whole new experience. Mentally I have always been scared of running and I needed to complete my first race to change my perspective. For example, yesterday I started my training with a three mile run. When training for Bloomsday, I started out with one mile. ONE MILE? One mile seems like nothing to me now. And the difference certainly isn't in my physical condition (because I am so out of shape right now!), but rather getting over the mental block of the number. Now, a long run seems like 8 or 9 miles as opposed to 3 or 4.

So we shall see, but I am PUTTING IT OUT THERE because that is what all running books say you have to do in order to actually run these things. So there it is.