week 4 day 1

news and notes from
week 4
day 1

this week's playlist from
kiss my black ass
is all michael jackson
so i finished my run
doing the moonwalk
sorry about the crotch grab at the end
had to be done...

i saw the dog i named roger
this time in the daylight
still don't know if it's
roger
or
rogerina
big beautiful golden retriever
i'm sticking with roger
roger lives on the corner
doesn't care when i run past one side of his house
but gets really mad at me when i run past the other side
but either roger is really well behaved
or there's an invisible fence
i'm guessing fence

i met frank the pug
from men in black

he doesn't wear the suit at home
he doesn't really speak english either
he just barks at people as they run by

i met one of the hyenas from
the lion king

don't know which one though
or at least a hideous looking dog that looked like them

but in all seriousness
today was a big run for me
i didn't make it this far
the last time i tried couch to 5k
run 3 minutes
walk 1.5 minutes
run 5 minutes
walk 2.5 minutes
run 3 minutes
walk 1.5 minutes
run 5 minutes
this one was tough
the last 5 minute run
was hard
my legs felt like jello
with weights floating in the middle
i was THIS close to quitting
but
i didn't
i finished
and i'm not afraid to say
that i've never been more proud of myself
these runs may not seem like much
but for someone who has been a smoker for half of their life
hey - it's been 225 days since my last cigarette
YAY ME!!!
and is overweight
and is was lazy
this is a big deal
and i feel amazing!!!

blonde lady

thanks to the
ahem
"blonde" lady that was checking her mail
right at the very end of my run
when i thought i was going to burst into flames
"it's too hot out here for that"
i responded with a quick
"yeah"
meaning
shut up lady
but then she finished it up with
"but good for you...  keep it up"
finished the end of my run
with a little more pep in my step

thanks lady...

3 things

**** F BOMB WARNING****

my run schedule has been all
jacked up lately
i have recently won the battle
with pink eye and some
sort of sinus infection
so i started week 3 tonight
this is the run
the one that got me last time around
the one that broke me down
that beat me
that won
but tonight
there were three things that i kept in my head
that kept me going
that helped me run
that helped me win

eminem's lose yourself
mom
dad

"this world's mine for the taking"

friday it will be 10 years since
my mom died

"success is my only motherfucking option, failure's not"

sunday it will be 1 year since
my dad died

"feet fail me not"

i miss them so much
i hope that i am the best part of them
my parents
not eminem
but thinking about them
and hoping that they are proud of me
keeps me going...

look how stinking cute