Brandon's built like a antelope. I'm built like an anteater.
However, I am determined to become a runner. So when a friend of mine asked me to run a 5K with her, I (hesitantly) obliged.
I ran it on Saturday. When I arrived at the starting line, I immediately began scoping out my competition (like I had a chance at winning). There were a lot of skinny legged people with nice running shoes. Darn. In order to keep my nerves down, I tried to find the people in the crowd I may be able to beat. I searched and searched. Eventually, I had to focus on the under 10 and over 80. I'm pretty sure the majority of them still beat me. Oh well... I did beat this one chick with an orange shirt - that's saying something, right?
I am happy to say I didn't die. It went way better than I had hoped. But the best part was having my own little cheering section at the end whom I didn't think would even be awake yet.
Maybe for my next 5K I'll have to take a page out of Brandon's book - training by watching other people run. Anyone own a copy of Prefontaine?
