the fantastic mundane.

i am getting closer to saying "i'm going 'running' today" without using air quotes.

tonight there was supposed to be a free symphony show at centennial park. so i decided to just do a "run" there, and go straight to the symphony. smelling like sweat, yes. at the symphony. sorry mozart. i love you. i do.

well it rained. and even though it stopped raining, they cancelled it. but i was already at the park at that point.

i don't like running there, because it's so crowded, and old men lap me. but i was there.

at the current phase of the plan, i'm "running" in timed intervals. i can't find my actual stopwatch, so i've just been using the stopwatch on my phone.* since it had been raining, i didn't want to use it in case it started pouring again. i don't want to ruin my phone. so i decided to just run for as long as i could, and not worry about doing exact minute-and-a-half intervals.

then i thought...

i wonder if i can run a quarter of a mile...

i've tried before, and been unsuccessful. that was before i was on this training plan.

i tried again today.

and i failed.

four times.

i paused. i prayed.

i did it. fifth time's the charm. isn't that what they say.

it felt good. i laughed. well it was kind of a tired giggle. but there was rejoicing.

*the cell phone stopwatch. don't be fooled. this is not a fancy "app" on a fancy phone. it's a flip phone i've had for 5 years. in addition to making and receiving calls, which is the purpose of a phone, it only does a few extra things. it texts. yes. sometimes it gets picture texts. there's a stopwatch. a caculator. an alarm. and...yeah, that's about it.