Run, Andre, Run

For those of you who don't know last Winter I joined the track team and actually lasted the entire season, no quitter here! For the most part I enjoyed doing track practice however I did not like the track meets. My nerves would go crazy and I got too anxious. Nonetheless I enjoyed practice and running in circles in 200, 400, or 500 meter segments. So I was (sort of) sad when the season ended and I started gaining weight because I was still eating like an athlete.

So I decided a few weeks ago to start running again. Well technically I started last Monday because of weather issues but it's all good now. I have promised myself to run 3 times a week before school. That means waking up at 4:45 but that beats running in the 90 degree heat at like 3 or 4. Plus my afternoons are to valuable to me.

Thanks to one of my running obsessed friends (thanks Maddy!) I now have a way to document my running routes as well as see how far it is that I am running. It took me a while to learn how to use it but mapmyrun.com has proven to be useful so far. According to the running map I made of this morning's run I ran 1.5 miles which I think is pretty darn good if I do say so myself. Another mile and a half and I am technically running a 5K. Which honestly I'm pretty sure I can run so I'm going to put that on my goals list for the summer: run at least a 5K. And I would love to run it with a friend, anyone out there interested?

Some people think I'm crazy for waking up so early to run and its not that I'm doing it to lose weight or anything. I just enjoy waking up and running through the empty streets with no cars or noise in the distance. Just me and sometimes my iPod (which according to a friend's dad, your not supposed to run with an iPod but if I don't the run seems to drag on foreverrr). It is also one of the only moments in the day where I can really clear my head and figure out what exactly it is that needs to be accomplished that day. The other only moment I have is now at 11:30 after everyone is alseep. But by now I'm dying to go to bed and don't even want to think about the fact that I have to wake up in less than 6 hours, I am getting my Algebra SOL score back tomorrow, I left my science fair poster with my parnter to finish (!) or that I have work again tomorrow...but of course if I'm listing these things down then that means I'm thinking about them...*sigh* I'll leave you now.

UYL,
Andre the Jogger