Holy. Crap.

Holy Crap. I went for my first run since 9th grade yesterday. Here I was like "Yeah! I've been working out at the gym, i'm in pretty good shape, I can go jogging..." HA.

I did it, it sucked, and I loved it anyway!

It was absolutely beautiful yesterday afternoon, I know this is really weird, but I love going to the cemetery that's a block away from my house. It's quiet and green and beautiful. I don't think cemeteries are depressing. It seems to me that each headstone is the last monument to a person's life. Even breathless and hating myself for how much my feet hurt and with a side ache, I still feel surrounded by other people's lives; not their deaths.

My cousin went running with me and we passed a couple that was buried next to each other. She had outlived him by 30 years. Can you imagine spending most of your life with someone, and all of a sudden they are gone, forever? All you have left is their memory, and maybe the occasional whisper of their presence in something of theirs, or something you did together. 30 years. That's more years than I've been alive. All this while on a dirt path watching out for sticks and rocks and potholes.

I think i'll have to go jogging their again, it gets my head out of my body, even just for a few minutes.

After years of the college grind i.e. that spending 18 hours a day for 2 years in a ceramics studio, eating school sanctioned junk food from the food court, resulting in gaining 50 pounds- I've remembered how much I love cycling, and how much i want to get my body in shape!

I started training in February of this year, and have been going to Anytime Fitness in Brainerd, MN about 3-4 times a week.

Obviously, now that I've decided to do the Habitat 500 in July, I will have to step it up a notch!

Now that the snow is gone, i am ready to hit the trails! I'll be updating weekly with a summary of my activities in the past week, with photos- hopefully of beautiful green spring things, and not just the inside of the gym, though tastefully decorated, it certainly is.

To donate toward Lakes Area Habitat for Humanity, for the Habitat 500, visit my firstgiving page!