My mind has officially been lost!

Those who know me & love me, know that I have a slight aversion to exercise...it's not fun, it makes me crabby & tired, it hurts...alas the imminent threat of the big 4-0 b'day, a vacation in FL & just a little too much jiggle in my wiggle have convinced me that work needs to be done!

So it was with reckless abandon that I downloaded couch-5K on my iphone along with some music to inspire me....hahahahaha!

Today was the day....the way it works is these crazy people believe that they can train you in 9 short weeks to run a 5K, week 1 starts out with a warm up then you "run" for 1 minute, walk for 1.5mins & so on until the last 5 mins which is the cool down, in total you run for 8 minutes...not so hard right? No it's not unless the only time you run is if someone BAD is chasing you, & well I can safely say after this morning that the bad guy is going to have to be in HORRIFIC shape for me to outrun him!

Armed with Lady Gaga, Lenny Kravitz & Katy Perry blasting I set out, a lovely Australian lady keeps me on track "In 10 seconds it's time to run for a minute" the first 4 runs weren't too bad, #5 I think I muttered something unladylike whilst waving to the garbage men who were either laughing or frantically looking for a phone to call 911 for me...by runs #7 & 8 I was definitely talking back out loud to Miss Australia & not in a friendly "Hey Sheila can you throw another shrimp on the barbie" kind of way...the phrase "Oh just shut the hell up"may have slipped out along with other unpleasantries....

There was a point where I thought I may throw up, pass out or die....but by some miracle I didn't...now it says 5K, and I know for a fact that's not how far I went today, if I did then I'd be typing from a hospital bed for sure....I made it home, gestured to Cal to fetch water & collapsed on the floor...at which point Finn felt this was an excellent time to play pile on Mommy, UGH.

Cal asked what was wrong & I said "I ran", to which he about fell over laughing...I explained the program & he just kept chuckling as far as I could tell, it was pretty blurry for a while...

Tomorrow Sheila says I get to rest...I wonder if the kids know about this? But come Saturday morning I'll be out there again, huffing & wheezing my way around the neighborhood, so I'm apologizing now to the residents of Greenbriar for the potential foul language you may be exposed too....