Running, why?

As revealed by my scant entries, my training has not exactly starting off with a bang. Discipline is a word that ... well ... it's a word. Needless to say perhaps I should start a mantra that incorporates this concept into my life. Having said that, I did strap myself in and went running earlier this week. See here? Running shoes.

Alright, so it isn't exactly proof,but it does show that I at least own a pair of running shoes. Well, it proves that I took a picture of someone's running shoes, anyway.

But seriously, I did go for a run. (What the what?) After a solid, say, 2-3 minutes or so, all I could think was, "people do this for fun?" So you can see I gave it the ole college try.

Ok. For real this time. I did go for a fairly decent run, for someone who hasn't done so in several years. I don't know the exact distance - I probably should get a GPS

 tracker of some kind - but it looks like it was about 2.5 miles in total. I am completely OK with that. Considering how sore I was in the moment I thought I might be hurting for days, but clearly I need to push a little harder if I want to have that "good hurt" going on.

I plan to get out this weekend for a decent hike. The weather is not supposed to be great, but at this point that is part of the deal. 5 months now!