So I have decided to stop being a lazy slug and start running.
Did I mention that the last time I ran was 1985? Well, no need to dwell on details...Bosco has been running daily for a week or so and I decided to join him. So off we go to the track of the school where I work just up the hill.
Right away I hit Obstacle #1---I am wearing gym shorts and I have vericose veins and what if one of my co-workers looks out the (many) windows and sees my (many) vericose veins? Oh, what the----heck-----I'm here so I might as well bite the bullet.
My goal was to run a quarter or maybe a half a lap around the track. Why count in quarters, you ask? Because my plan was to walk a quarter, run a quarter, and build up gradually. And because I thought if I went from zero to 60 after not running for 23 years I might die.
"Ohmigosh! She was only 50 and she died of a heart attack! Was it because she never excercised?"
"Well, in a way..."
So, I surprised myself by running 6 quarters on the first day!
Okay, I'm not going down to Eugene for the Olympic Trials, but for me it was a victory :)
So far I have been on summer vacation less than a week and I have achieved three goals: read a book, started running and have gotten (slightly) tanned.
What next? Climbing Mt. Everest?? Close. We got a puppy.
His name is Rosco, he is a shepherd/husky mix and every inch of him is adorable except his bladder....now I remember why we waited to long to get a puppy... Seriously, the kids are doing all the clean-up, I'm just dispensing advice. (I could get used to this!) He has us wrapped around his paws--which happen to be HUGE. This animal has feet for running across the frozen tundra! Only Darryl the cat avoids him like the plague. He keeps coming out to the Family Room after a nap and staring at him like: "Ohmigod! YOU'RE still here???" Very funny!
5 comments:
Funny, funny, funny, Marmot! You're inspiring!
Darryl the Cat isn't named after Jim and Nancy's old dog, is he?
Good for YOU! I started running last fall and am all the way up to 2 miles ... almost 2 miles ... one mile ...
but I'm NOT getting a dog!
Much Afraid, do you know I didn't realize they shared the same name till about a year after we named him?! I kept thinking..."Darryl would be a good name..." But I had forgotten all about Nancy's Darryl until recently! Do you ever see Nancy? I sure miss her some times.
lc, you GOTTA get a dog! The running won't take unless you get a dog! (Vain threat!) Lars was one of the names we seriously considered for Rosco--but then we remembered it had been taken :)
Dear Marmotmail,
'Leafing through' Blogs I spied yours, and I was attracted for a couple of reasons. You enjoy expressing yourself in words, and you have a dog with a bladder problem! I havem't even got a dog but my daughter rang this-evening and said her mature dog had started having accidents! So I felt that was a sign. I am an Auustralian grandmother and you can learn more about me on my Blog, Rinkly Rimes. (Yes I write poetry)
Yours,
Brenda Bryant
MM - No, I don't see Jim and Nancy, though I think of them often, especially Nancy's sense of humor.
We will be trying a new church soon. A family from the Down syndrome group has been called to plant a church in south SJ (where we are). He's been pastoring in Santa Clara for a few years, then this opportunity came about for them. Pray for us!
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