Despite the fact that I received an email for tomorrow’s 10K saying that headphones weren’t allowed, I just tried to craft the perfect playlist. I have really random taste in music.
Really random.
So, I’m going to visit my father and stepmother tomorrow and I need to pack (and by pack, I really mean finish up Season 2 of Homeland), but I want to leave anyone who might be interested a promo code for Pretty Muddy.
If you’re not familiar, Pretty Muddy is a women only mud run held in seven states nationwide, one of which is Georgia (on October 12th.) Any of my local friends want to do it with me? (Wait, that doesn’t sound right….)
Okay, I just realized that this is not, in fact, a promo code and it’s just a reminder that the registration goes up on March 1st. Sorry about that.
I don’t think I mentioned this, mostly because I was a little embarrassed, but I started doing a Couch to 10K program maybe a month ago. I know it’s nothing to be embarrassed about, the opposite really, but I was because it used to be that I could run a 10K no problem. That’s the thing about running. If you don’t do it regularly, it gets hard.
So to get back into it, I download a free app. There are several, but the one I use is by Zenlabs. I don’t have it in front of me and I’m too lazy to get up and look, but I think I started the program at Week 4 or 5 since it wasn’t like I couldn’t run at all. So now I’m into Week 9 and I’m sort of ignoring the app and running about 4 miles at a time. 4 miles seems close enough to a 10K, so I figured I should probably sign up for one. Here’s what I’m eyeing:
I’ve done the both the Silver Comet 10K and the Silver Comet Half-Marathon before and I really like them for one sole reason. They are flat. Atlanta is notoriously hilly and finding a flat race is kind of rare. Until I pulled this screenshot, I was thinking the race was at the end of March, not the beginning. Umm, oops. I haven’t signed up yet, but I will. I like having something to train for. It gives me a push that I don’t normally have. A push to go to the gym in a torrential downpour when all I want to do is drive home.
I have plans tomorrow night, so I knew that if I really wanted to get myself into 10K shape in a month, I needed to ignore the crazy weather and just go run after work. I mean, it wasn’t raining in the gym, right? I drove to the gym and sat in the car for a while, trying to make excuses of why I shouldn’t go inside. But with the looming 10K on my mind, I made a mad dash for it (and of course stepped in a huge puddle) and got my 4 miles in.
Now I should probably sign up for the race. Anyone want to do it with me?
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