Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Back at it again

I stopped running last year after I knew I wasn't going to be ready to run any kind of race just because I wasn't training.  I was running but one day I went out and got dehydrated and kind of got myself down, so I kind of gave up on the whole running a second marathon.  Maybe before I am 40 I will run a second marathon.  For now I am going to keep running a few miles at a time.  Another thing that got me out of the gym was when I adopted a kid!  This kind of cuts into working out when well, you have an infant to take care of.  I run when I can and now I am getting back into running.  After we adopted him we were in a hotel for two weeks so I walked a lot around the hotel parking lots and also on the treadmill.  When we got home I realized it was time to get back to running.  So I just did it. I knew I could only run a few miles, so that is what I did.  I ran 3 miles.  Then a few more weeks went by and I ran again.
Last week I started back to work full full time, I had a babysitter one day and then my mother in law came down for the rest of the week.  I was surprised that she came early so I took advantage and went for a run.  I was going to go just in my neighborhood, but I was getting sick of the hills, and I was getting sick of the same route.  Recently we discovered or rediscovered SeaSide Park in Bridgeport which has a great non-rocky beach and new pavement and some great lawns.  I had ran down there one time in the past few weeks so I decided to go there.  I drove this time but when I got there I decided it was time to get back to barefooting.  I take off my 5 fingers and go.  I end up running 5 miles and feel great.  So I did another run there last week again and again it was great.  So today I went 6 miles around the neighborhood today.  So now I'm training for a few running races later this summer.  I really just want to run some races they always feel great and I love the element of pack running.

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