Runners High.

Most people talk about runners high, how they love it. I cant begin to tell you how much I have truly missed it until I ran 5 miles tonight in 45 minutes. And I only stopped once! (well, twice because of a ginormo hill). But I am so proud of myself! Most of you dont know, or dont care to know that I am hoping to do a Triatholon in Reeds Lake in August, so I have just started my training for that and I have been running or biking all week. The Triatholon is pretty minor, 500m swim, 17 mile bike, and a 5 mile run. I was pretty intimidated... Until I actually got through a 5 mile run without knowing it tonight!

I cant believe how much I have missed this running. I ran 6 years in High school for those of you who dont know... Though that was more sprinting a mid distance than distance running, so this is something new for me and Ive been dreading the process of getting in shape for distance because its a whole different set of training than im used to... But it seems promising so far.

Prepare for a nerd alert and rant on running:
Running definitely has its perks, it is said to take all the chemically negative things out of your brain and replace it with seratonin I believe. Many times I would go for a run with a headache and come back without one. I usually feel more positive (duh) and ready to take on things that I thought maybe I couldnt before. I watched a documentary on the Chicago Marathon last night, dont ask why... I stumbled upon it and watched all 2 hours of it... ridiculous.  But for those of you who dont know, a marathon is 26.3 miles. The history is pretty interesting on it, it was based in Greece and I am only paraphrasing because I cant remember exactly what the story was about... But a soldier named Pheidippides ran from his city to Athens to relay a really important message to the King or something on the battle of Marathon and had enough breath to tell the message and then died. So that trek was then deemed for heros, and many set out to do that same thing that Marathon did, except not die. (I tried telling my dad this story and he was trying REALLY HARD to be as interested in it as I was, so I give him some credit.) Theres also an interesting story about women in marathons... after a marathon that was for both men and women, some of the women were stumbling and falling over the finish line in such a fashion that the men were completely aghast. They were so horrified that they banned women from marathons thinking them too frail for the 26 miles feat. Until one year a woman entered her first and middle initial and last name, and no one questioned it because they figured it was a male. Then there was an incredible hype when people started recognizing her as a woman during the race, and one of the race officials or maybe the mayor ran up to her in the middle of the race and tried to rip her number off of her and told her to 'get the hell out of my race!' He was then promptly shouldered into the sidewalk as the womans bear of a boyfriend body slammed him. She finished the race. I feel like I am not giving these people the proper amount of credit because for the life of me I cannot remember her name...

In any case, no judging for my nerdfest. I am just starting to get excited for this Triatholon, I just want to finish! That is all. Thus ends the nerdish rant for the night, I am happy to get to bed. Caio!