Recent Happenings: Half Marathon Training

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I was having trouble falling asleep one night about 3 weeks ago, so naturally, I decided to sign up for a half marathon. Why, you ask? Your guess is as good as mine...I've always despised running, thinking it a pointless, mundane activity that did nothing but make me feel like I needed to throw up. I think I put "run a half marathon" on my Bucket List, just as a joke.

So for the self-professed non-runner, training for my first half marathon has commenced! I roped a friend into doing it with me, which makes it 10 times easier. We'll be running 6 miles tomorrow...yikes! A month ago, I would have never thought that was possible. Or even more surprising, that I'd ENJOY it. Weird.

It has definitely had some favorable effects on my body, which I can't say I'm upset about. A plus, for sure, but not the goal of the training. I think I've dropped about 5 pounds in the 3 weeks since I've started, my stomach is significantly flatter, and "the line" is starting to show up again. "The line" is something I haven't seen since soccer season of my senior year of high school. It runs down the outside of my thigh (better known as the outside of my quad), and ohhhh how I've missed it! I'm very glad it's made a resurgence, because I was starting to think it was lost forever in my high school years...along with the insane metabolism that allowed me to eat two dinners a night (plus dessert) and still not put weight on.

Still getting used to the fact that I've become a "runner" (although I'm not sure if I've quite earned that title yet). I'm having a bit of an identity crisis over it: how in the world have I come to love something I adamantly hated for, oh...16 years?