Cliches and Procrastination

I hate cliches but unfortunately I use them far too often to be able to judge others. My most recent appropriate little ditty is: "Today is the first day of the rest of your life."

Actually, it should probably be "this week is the first week of the rest of your life." After debating about running a 10k for MONTHS, I decided to one-up my subconcsious and sign up for a 1/2 marathon. Holy jeez. Furthermore, I took steps to ENSURE that I would not flake out, as I am prone to do, by promising the Urban Promise Academy's Close Up Program (a fantastic cause) that I would fundraise for them. My picture and informational blurb up on their website was the best and worst thing to happen to me this week, but either way it did make my commitment to the 1/2 marathon a total and absolute (is that redundant?) reality. Sweet.

That being said, I have now ran for the past four days and ohhhh boyyy I can't believe that I was tearing it up on the lacrosse field as of a year ago. And by "tearing it up," I mean playing a low defensive position and only covering about half of the field every game, but it's all relative and saying that makes me feel better. Needless to say, I am

a) sore
b) annoyed that it seems to get dark at 4 pm this time of year
c) was breathing always this hard?
d) impressed by the elderly Berkeley residents that speedwalk around me as I "run"

My greatest accomplishment of this week was to get up early and go running. If only I could run the 1.5mi that I walk to work every morning, my endurance would greatly improve. But the "ifs" and "buts" are NOT going to stand in my way! I can do this!

Please note that as I type this post, I am procrastinating about today's run. Okay. No more wasting time. Here's to a week of firsts - first time signing up for a half-marathon, first blog post ever, first time I've tasted alcohol! Okay, I'm kidding about the last one. These may be "firsts", but they (knock on wood) won't be "lasts"!