I Choose.

04Nov09

On a windy and cold Tuesday afternoon, somewhere around 4pm at a local Starbucks while I was waiting for my too complicated drink with too many customizations that I can barely pronounce, I noticed a poster on the community board. The poster, I can’t believe I didn’t see it earlier, but it was for a 5k Turkey Trot on Sunday, November 22. Immediately I was in intrigued, simply because I enjoyed my first one, and thought of participating in a second one before the Winter truly comes.

At first I’ve got that “can I do it/am I ready” mentality. It’s not like I was ever “ready” for my first 5k. It was something I trained my body for. I combined my cardio workouts with Yoga and mixed it up. It wasn’t that I had some trainer telling me how to train, but I was able to read blogs like Chic Runner and Le Petite Athlete and get ideas of how they prepared their own bodies for a race (or maybe a marathon). It wasn’t that I had something concrete to go off of. It was looking at various blogs as the ones I’ve mentioned here, and taking it from there.

Therefore… with what time I’ve got, I have decided to participate in yet another 5k. It just over two weeks away and my goal for this training is simple. To increase my miles by adding one additional mile each workout. On average, I log about 1mi per workout, sometimes it’s a bit more, it varies, but really… I need to “practice” logging a easy 2mi. Today I was able to walk 2mi without any difficulty. However, I must state that for the Turkey Trot I have the option of running or walking. I’m doing a combination of both.

I choose what I do, and this is my choice to run.

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