“Success isn't how far you got, but the distance you traveled from where you started.”

I interrupt this recap of visits to announce my latest bout of inspiration. I signed up for a 10k. For the record, I am in absolutely no condition to run a 10k right now but I am hoping that in the next 6 weeks I will be. The race is on October 16th and it's along the river in Boston. I have been told that the weather will be nice by Mister "I-can-apparently-predict-the-weather-slash-I-will-tell-you-whatever-you-want-to-hear-if-it-will-get-you-to-sign-up-and-run-this-with-me." For the record, he also goes by "I-just-ran-a-marathon."  He has a lot of names. He also goes by Kyle but I anticipate I'll just address him as "SLOW DOWN" for the next 6 weeks. I did warn him today that there is a certain point every time I run where I literally hate the world so hopefully I won't lash out...Another big concern is that apparently training for a 10k also means we can't get ice cream virtually every day so we'll see how I deal with that.

Anyway, I am actually excited about it. I have been fairly lazy lately so this should help. I also have this T-shirt from high school cross country that says "Yes...I run for fun" and I'd like to get somewhere near a point where I'm not embarrassed to wear it taking out the garbage.

I'm telling all of you about this race so hopefully you will ask me about it for the next month or so. That way I'll keep up with it because I'll be too embarrassed to tell you I quit. Dad, I'm going to ask you to run with me when I'm home in a few weeks!