(Another thing that scares me is when my husband remotely starts playing music on my computer while I’m blogging. That’s just as an A.D.D. side note. He downloaded a new app on my iPod so that he can use my iPod to control my computer. Randomly while I’m alone in the room, my computer starts magically playing something really loudly and scares the bejeezes out of me. When I went into the living room to accuse him just now, he was laying on the couch innocently watching TV. Yah right.)

So back to running: distances scares me. Five weeks ago, speed scared me too and, though I do not consider myself a fast runner by any means, I have shaved off 2 full minutes per mile in 4 weeks time. I guess if I could do that, I can increase my distances too. Lord help us all…especially me.

My goal is to run in the Run for the Schools on October 18. I am not even as scared about the actual 5K as I am about the training for it. I know I can run 5K. I just did it last Sunday. The training aspect though is harder because it pushes me to run further (farther?) than 5K to really prepare myself.

Humpf. Another mind-game that I’m struggling with is that 4 weeks was such a short time commitment. My new training coach for the 5K is a 12-week training period. Twelve weeks is a much longer commitment. I need to mentally get myself into this though because today when I went for a run, I struggled with the same old normal 2.75 mile route. Yes, it was a scorcher today, but I don’t think it was the heat so much as the knowledge that I was making it official; I was starting my 12-week course.

[big eye roll]

I think I can. I think I can. I think I can…

P.S. I forgot to mention that in this 12-week training period, I will also be running at least 171 miles. Looks like those new running shoes will come sooner than I thought.