I have long wanted to be a runner. I’ve started and stopped more times than I can remember. Yesterday JT sent me a simple message saying “we’re doing the Army Run 5K. you in?”.
I hesitated.
Laughed out loud.
Tried to come up with reasons not to do it.
But a voice from a dark little corner of my mind said “Oh just do it ya pansy”. Without thinking I replied to JT with a resounding and enthusiastic “Yeah, I guess”.
Now normally, this is where I would come up with 101 reasons not to do it (no time to train, need to be with kids, this hurts, inner ear thing, prohibitive work schedule, too damn lazy and so on…) but I was reminded of 101 reason to do it, namely my dayzeroproject list which includes Run in an organized 5K race. And so, before I could succumb to the reasons not to, I signed up and paid for it. I quickly sent CH a BBM asking her to guide me (she’s a Runner – capital R) and warned her that I will try to get out of it and that I may come up with very convincing reasons to back out and I begged her not to let me. She said simply “I know you will. You’re doing it.”
Training starts tonight. I’ll have to schedule carefully and plan to run on the days when Pdot and Vman have dinner with their dad. I’ll also have to ask him to be consistent in the days he has dinner with them and the time he brings them home (this has long been a struggle but he was supportive of my WEWC walk activities and I am sure that I can rely on him for this for most of the next 6 weeks until the run…).
I’m feeling good about it. I know I can walk if/when I need to on race day. I am doing this for me, for a number of reasons: health, challenge, me time, a new playlist 
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Stay tuned.
