I'm Ready, Ready To Run

Remember this lyric?

Well, I guess whether I am ready or not...the race is this Saturday.

What: Thanksgiving Point Half Marathon
When: April 30 2011
Time: Starts 7am- ends....umm well however fast my legs take me. (if you don't keep up a 16 minute mile then they pick you up and take you to the finish line. hmm...tempting ha)
Where: Starts and ends at Thanksgiving Point
Why: I DON'T KNOW!!!

I don't know how I ended up putting myself through this again. I swear all it ends up being is an endless round of talking myself into running because the guilt of not running the day before almost kills me, as well as the thought of running 13.1 miles without training enough... But here I go. I was such a slacker at the beginning of the training, and this last week I haven't done near enough due to moving home and the SNOW! Snow in the end of April? Really?

But the race waits for no one. And NO way am I letting my fee money go to waste. So I will buckle down, suck it up, and run my little heart out.

Turn up my music, finish my Harry Potter book and enjoy the smells of the tulip festival. Sounds like heaven right? Until I remember that my legs will be doing something totally different...

From all my experience, and that meaning the one half marathon I have done in my lifetime ha.

Here is the highlight: finishing alive. I feel pretty accomplished. Oh and the medal, that is neat. I feel like my 5 year old self getting the trophy that everyone gets and thinking that mine is the coolest still.
Lowlight? umm Worst Part?: Watching 60+ year old men and women run right on past me. Maybe one day I will be like them...don't hold your breath though.

Well, if anything, I have an excuse to carbo-load, surely one of the reasons to run any race. Excuse me while I go eat my weight in pasta and bread.

oh, and wish me luck!