By no means am I a professional runner. I am not even an avid runner. I enjoy running, I suck at it, but I enjoy it. According to my Nike Running up, its been about 2 years since I went on a run. So, like I said, far from an avid runner.
In high school I had a coach tell me that I would be a great long distance runner. I didn't believe him and I hated running at the time. Its boring, and in New Mexico its windy, and just not all that fun to do. But, then I grew up a little bit and got really out of shape, and seeing that I didn't have any one to wrestle with or a wrestling team to join, I had to pick up something, and running was an easy something to do. I swore I wrote a blog about running during my freshmen year of college. I'd get home from work, eat, veg out for a bit and then put on the running shoes, grab my little mp3 player and head out the door. A little Relient K, Blink-182, and some other random bands from a cd a friend gave me and I was in my own little world.
The last year has been rather crazy and so running went down the drain but since I need to look some what decent before my family makes a trip to Jamaica I decided that it was time to get back into running. Now, to be honest, without an Ipod or some music to run with and my Nike Running app, I probably wouldn't like it as much. But seriously, how can you complain when you have an app telling you how far, how long, and your average pace. Not to mention, since I haven't ran in forever, it kicks out a nice workout routine for me, giving me some suggestions for how long I should run each day and different methods like, walk for a minute and then run for a minute.Its a nice little helpful thing.
What is crazy about all of this, is that over the last couple years I have noticed that the things I hated and refused to do in high school, have turned into things I really enjoy doing. I hated English class because of all the writing and the grammar, and now I enjoy writing, still suck at grammar but I have improved a little over the years. I hated running, but I wish I would have been on the cross country and track teams. I am sure the list goes on. While waking up an extra 30 minutes to go for a light jog sucked, but once I got out the door I felt like I was in my little sanctuary with LMFAO's "Sexy and I know it" blaring as I ran down the empty streets.
In high school I had a coach tell me that I would be a great long distance runner. I didn't believe him and I hated running at the time. Its boring, and in New Mexico its windy, and just not all that fun to do. But, then I grew up a little bit and got really out of shape, and seeing that I didn't have any one to wrestle with or a wrestling team to join, I had to pick up something, and running was an easy something to do. I swore I wrote a blog about running during my freshmen year of college. I'd get home from work, eat, veg out for a bit and then put on the running shoes, grab my little mp3 player and head out the door. A little Relient K, Blink-182, and some other random bands from a cd a friend gave me and I was in my own little world.
The last year has been rather crazy and so running went down the drain but since I need to look some what decent before my family makes a trip to Jamaica I decided that it was time to get back into running. Now, to be honest, without an Ipod or some music to run with and my Nike Running app, I probably wouldn't like it as much. But seriously, how can you complain when you have an app telling you how far, how long, and your average pace. Not to mention, since I haven't ran in forever, it kicks out a nice workout routine for me, giving me some suggestions for how long I should run each day and different methods like, walk for a minute and then run for a minute.Its a nice little helpful thing.
What is crazy about all of this, is that over the last couple years I have noticed that the things I hated and refused to do in high school, have turned into things I really enjoy doing. I hated English class because of all the writing and the grammar, and now I enjoy writing, still suck at grammar but I have improved a little over the years. I hated running, but I wish I would have been on the cross country and track teams. I am sure the list goes on. While waking up an extra 30 minutes to go for a light jog sucked, but once I got out the door I felt like I was in my little sanctuary with LMFAO's "Sexy and I know it" blaring as I ran down the empty streets.
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