Running Boot Camp

I moved to the city about two weeks ago. I'm now living in Harlem. I'm four blocks from Central Park and I love it! It is so nice to get up in the morning and walk or run to the park. If I'm having a lazy day or the weather is nice I will walk the forty-two blocks to my school through the park. Yeah, I did that last week and it was an awesome day!

I've signed up to run a half-marathon at the end of April. I ran one last August, but I did a very stupid thing. I thought I would work on getting back into shape. Well what happened was the date rolled around and I had done maybe four runs total over the four months since I had registered for the race. I ended up running the blasted thing and wanting to die the whole time because I was so out of shape. This was last August, now we are at the end of March and I get this brilliant idea. I have one month till the next half-marathon and I again have been very bad with my running schedule. I see on the NYRR website that they have a runners boot camp. I sign up thinking I will at least make myself run one day out of the week before I attempt another half-marathon. The other idea is that someone will push me farther than I'm willing to push myself.

Today was my first class. It wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be, but I can tell right now that my legs and butt are going to be very sore tomorrow. I hope I'm feeling good enough to run a 10k on Sunday, because I'm signed up to do one. I'm not going to be in great shape this time, but I will be in better shape than I was last year. Everyone in my class seems pretty cool. It is a wonderful way to spend Thursday mornings at 6:30am.