6 am.
The Today Show.
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.
Mashed Potatoes. Turkey. Pumpkin Pie. Homemade Schwartz family recipe pecan rolls. Pecan Pie. Pumpkin Pie.
These are the things I typically celebrate on Thanksgiving. Sure there are many more but this year I add a new reason to celebrate. I have already told you that I am running my FIRST 5K this year on Thanksgiving. While I feel I have thrown myself to the wolves in deciding to run a 5K on Thanksgiving morning I wanted to make sure that I took a few other friends and family members down with me.
Now, thats love folks.
If I have to miss part of one of my favorite days of the year (I mean, what other day is almost solely centered around food and TV?)
I wanted to be sure to share the pain joy with everyone I know!
My brother, Karl, Jeff and a large handful of some close friends are also going to be running the same race!
My having people join me in my first 5K is two fold.
1. I am so extremely proud of myself and I am overjoyed that I am running again after 13 years ‘off’ that I want everyone to know that ‘I can’.
2. I am telling everyone I know so that I do not chicken out and decide not to do it.
I do not have stage fright so to speak. But I have ‘I might have to walk a lot more than everyone else around me’ fright.
I know that this is okay.
It is acceptable.
And hell, its a run/walk anyways.
But I really want to show myself and everyone else that I am capable of accomplishing this goal.
5K (3.1 miles) is not that far at all. Especially if I train my butt of for the next three months.
I have found that I am not an early morning runner. I have to leave the house at 8 am at the latest to make it to work on time. Getting up at 7 am is already a stretch for me on a weekday and I am a 9 hours a night kinda gal as it is.
Which makes me more of an evening runner.
Today my goal is to make a running plan for the next few months.
Easily said, hopefully easily done.
And now all I can think about is pumpkin pie.
Is it November yet?
