I have got to get a watch...

...Because I'm thinking that maybe I want to start timing myself. I decided yesterday since it was a tad nippy outside (for South Carolina that is), I would go to the Leisure Center track and run instead. When I got there, there were not that many people on the track so I decided to push it a little more than usual for a mile. Now, this in itself is impressive for me because I can remember having to run the mile in high school for softball conditioning. I absolutely HATED it! Like hate seems like a nice word to describe how I felt back then about running it, and anything that would get me out of it, I would try. So just the sheer fact that I now not only will voluntarily run a mile, but I will run more than a mile, still leaves me in disbelief over myself. I guess I'm really not the same person I was back then.

Anyway, now a mile doesn't seem so bad, so I decided to give it a run, literally. While I did not have a watch, I suspect I ran it in 9 minutes or a little less. I determined this by the songs I was listening to on my mp3 player. I can make the mile within "Same in Any Language" by INine, "Want To" by Sugarland and about half of "Cigarettes" by the Wreckers. So roughly translated, I'm around 9 minutes. While that may not seem incredibly impressive for real runners, for me I'm pretty darn impressed. That's back to what I was back in high school when I worked out and played sports all the time (and weighed less). And if you think back from where we started, I was struggling for the 11 minute mile and cursing each day I went to run. So yeah, give me a cookie.

Oh and speaking of not being a "real runner," Lauren, Joeli and I had a conversation about that last night. We decided that we're not real runners yet because we don't get upset when we don't get to run. We don't go for miles and miles on a Saturday morning. We don't wear spandex (ok, so I just made that one up...I dont' wear spandex anyway...though perhaps that will be a goal of mine: get to the point of looking hot in spandex. Hard thing to do; we'll see). We may not be hard core and we may never be hard core, but we are getting better and we're getting healthier and we're having fun. That's what it's all about :-)

-April