Saturday, August 16, 2008

sparks that started a prairie fire

i love how the olympics inspire me to be so much healthier than i am, but i hate how they make it hard to turn off the tv and get outside. while i would prefer to be watching with my family or my friends, i'm glad people aren't here to see me cry like once an hour at the sappy inspirational athletes commercials or whenever there's an especially nice medal win. talked to hoppy on the phone! need to clean my apartment so i can find my stamps. how didn't i know the women's marathon olympic trials were run back in april in cambridge (on memorial drive!)?

have been running 3 times in the last 3 days! my body is so lazy and slow, but it gets better every day. today i did a run-walk 5k (run the first mile, walk the second, run the last 1.2). the first mile was tough, but the third was awesome, i think because i spent the whole time rehearsing how i would have answered the America's Next Top Model challenge i saw the day before. it's just so tough to tell what tyra's going to like.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

i went running five days in a row the week before vacation, then i went on vacation and only ran once, and now i'm back and made the choice not to go running this morning. :(

tomorrow, i will run!

Lauren said...

tomorrow: you run i run!! YAY FITNESS! ...maybe we should have done this BEFORE crew started, not 3 months after it finished.

Unknown said...

i ran this morning. did YOU?

:)

Lauren said...

some of us don't have the physical capacity to wake up more than 40 minutes before they need to be at work, but i did go running after work! there was the most beautiful sunset i've seen all summer and three deer hanging out next to the trail.

i'm so proud of you!