My friends, I am a stubborn person, many of you already know this, sometimes I get stubborn about pointless things or really annoying things actually…but this is an example of when it actually benefits  (you know, unless I get sick)

I am now on Week 4 of the Couch to 5 K Program. It hasn’t been easy, mostly because I don’t have stamina, the actual running doesn’t hurt and the next day I feel fine, but mid-run my brain starts shouting at me “WAIT, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? DON’T YOU KNOW WE LIKE TO WALK, AND SLEEP, WE LIKE TO SLEEP, AND WATCH TV on DVD (on season 4 of Angel right now) WHY ARE YOU RUNNING, THIS IS INSANE!!!!

My brain is very loud. Sometimes it curses, sometimes it cries.

C25K Program: http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_3/181.shtml

C25K Podcast I love with bouncy music: http://chubbyjones.libsyn.com/

So today was, run 3 mins, walk 90 sec, run 5 mins, walk 2 mins, then repeat, I believe. The first half I did decent, slow, the college boy and HS girl passed me out easy, but decent, as I out ran the mom-age lady on the track. Then, the rain came, slow at first, during my second three min run it decided to pour. The mom, HS daughter, and college boy all ran for the hills (or I should say, the hill, where we had all parked.)

I decided to take that famous stubborn streak and actually do something useful with it. I rain the three mins in the rain getting soaked, then looped around to the bleachers, grabbed my Hoodie stuck it over my head and kept going. The Rain stopped by the time I had to do my second 5 mins. That run was actually harder, maybe because I was not distracted by the rain anymore.

Hopefully Thurs when I go again I can do the run without flopping around like a dying fish, but hey, exercise ain’t perdy, in fact, it’s scary, SEE:

It passed quick but was rainy enough to make me look like a wet rat:

The fact that my shirt, keys, and shoes match was not on purpose,

I don’t even LIKE pink, it just looks decent on me with my annoyingly pale skin:

This Shirt WAS light pink when I started, the bottom still…sort of is:

Tired, Soaked, but accomplished, time for me

and the Corolla to head off into that sunset:

(Sure, it got pretty AFTER the run)