Overrun with exhaustion

Haha, just trying to use "run" in all my blog titles since I'm doing this running thing.

Side note: For those of you (2) that actually follow my blog, getting ready to overhaul it in the next few days. Had a major brainstorm of the things I really like and how they can be funny together. So stay tuned for the makeover. It will still include my brave and probably futile attempt at the half marathon, yet so much more about the real me.

But for now....went on choir tour last week. SO AWESOME! Totally a success after 4 years of not having one, think we helped everyone realize why they are so awesome. But on a side note, that meant about 10 days of no exercise, let alone my running. And I had SO built up to that solid two miles. So tonight was my first attempt back.....and I'm not gonna lie, pretty stoked on myself....ran two solid miles and ran half of the second mile at a faster pace than I usually do. (I'm a terribly slow runner). Now, as a note to would-be runners...I'm not a fan of the treadmill. I like goals like "I'll get to that tree and then walk" or "I can make it to the next street over and then it's downhill," but on the treadmill, it clocks every .01 of a mile you run so to me it feels like your crawling at a snail's pace to get to a larger goal. ("and leaving a sticky trail all the way behind you" for anyone who went to NOLA'07)

But tonight...the treadmill was the bomb. I conquered. I think b/c it was sooooooooooooooooo hot outside I knew the only way I could run was inside, so I just beefed up the music volume, watched the TV's in the gym (NCIS, I think?), and ran and ran. And I did it, I had the energy, I had the determination. Tonight's music of choice was J Roddy Walston and the Business....awesome running music if you don't have it. You can literally keep pace with it, 1st album Hail Mega Boys, next album coming soon, but you can get a 3 song EP on iTunes. I'm thinking next run, I'm gonna go for a Choir Tour Bus Dance Party Mix.

Final note, and I'm a little bitter about it....the fact that I had such good success tonight means that I must have built up some endurance prior to leaving for choir tour....which in turn means, UGH, it is time to increase to 3 miles. Glass half empty...Crap. Glass half full....hey, only 10 more miles to go after that.