the morning after

yesterday's run went great and kept me energized until about 3 pm.. then i think the previous night's chipotle decided i should sleepy. i wanted to go to bed around 7 pm, but aj assured me i was not six years old and that i could stay up like a big girl.

so at 8 pm i fell asleep on the couch.

after awaking from yet another dream at the playboy mansion, i tried to get up to go to the ladies' room. apparently while i was hanging out with hef and the girls, someone decided it would be hilarious to remove my calves and replace them with bricks. i had to march my ass (literally) to the bathroom. upon returning i tried stretching and after failing miserably i decided it was time to take it to the next level. the sauna.

heat is always good for sore muscles so aj and i got all warmed up and stretched out in the schvitzer for about 20 minutes. after that i felt as limber as ever! satisfied, i decided to go to bed (finally) and get a good nights' sleep. at 2 am i awoke to the liter of water i quickly drank before bed screaming at me to get out. when i stood, it seemed our favorite little prankster had returned to gank the precious calves i had spent so long heating and stretching out and replaced them yet again with bricks. i recalled my marching tactics from earlier in that night and successfully made it to the bathroom in the dark.

now i find myself at work, blogging on the clock, with chunks of debris left behind from the bricks. it's not as bad but i sure can feel it when i walk. i guess i kind of expected something to hurt from running for the first time ever, and i am happy it is as minimal as this is. sure it is annoying, but i am tough and after today the pain should subside.

and just to throw it in, and because i didn't list this in the previous blog, here is our training schedule for this week:

monday: run/walk 35 minutes

tuesday: rest day

wednesday: run/walk 35 minutes

thursday: cross-train 45 minutes-1 hour

friday: run/walk 40 minutes

saturday: rest day

sunday: run/walk 45 minutes

after all of this, i now understand why we get today off in our schedule. the first run is a big deal and you do need plenty of rest and care afterwards. tomorrow i will be back out there at 5:30 am punishing my poor defenseless calves to the bricks. (pun intended?) wish me luck.

loosing my virginity to the sidewalk

so if you've been living under a rock.. or if you just haven't visited the ol' myspace lately, then you may have missed the BIG news! oh dear god, no.. aj and i are not getting married or having a baby. this is bigger. way bigger.

we have decided to run a marathon!!

yes yes, the running bug has bit us. why so late in life.. i have no clue. i have never (and when i say never i mean like carrot top never being funny) ever liked running. i have always had terrible form, could never breathe, and always managed to bitch more than sweat. that's just the way i'm built.. or so i thought.

now, i can't take credit for sparking the idea of the marathon. no, that was all aj. aj and miranda hobbs. yes you read correctly. miranda hobbs (cynthia nixon) from sex and the city sparked something within aj in the episode when the butt licker guy pushed her into the 9 minute mile pace. now, aj's enthusiasm did not come from anything butt licking-related. this was strictly one of those "hey, wouldn't it be amazing to accomplish something like that?" moments.

after a night of surfing the internet and hardly sleeping aj was declaring his marathon pledge. already on his runner's high without taking his first step he did something crazier than deciding to pick up such a hobby in the first place. he asked me to join.

lol i did. no joke. it was about a full minute of out-loud laughing. and doubt. and panic. and disappointment. (on my end.) maybe i could start with a 5k? thats a start. i think i could run 3.1 miles in about 6 hours. sure. so, i started my researching, and long story short.. i too am going to run a marathon.

and to be sure we are perfectly clear, i DO mean one of those 26.2 mile-type of marathons.. not sex and the city marathon over chipotle-types. (although i do like those types too.)

i'll spare you the thrills of when we purchased our books, shoes, nike+ ipods, armbands, earphones, and wristbands.. read and tested said items, cried (joke), danced (not a joke) and stocked up on much needed carbs via chipotle (again, not a joke). i'll fast-forward you kind readers to today. the FIRST run.

believe it or not the run went amazingly! i would have never guessed that 28 degrees could feel so comfortable. below is the progress from my first run thanks to my handy little running buddy, my nike+. please keep in mind this is from a FIRST run and i have never ran more than one mile in my life. unless i was being chased. and i usually never get chased.

so enjoy these blogs. look at them on your lunch hour. read them during commercial breaks. laugh at them. be encouraged by them. i don't know.. print them off and tuck them under your pillow at night. i'm sure some of you may, and if so that might be creepy. good thing i know how to run now.