Marathon

Ok, so to reach my goal of losing a bunch of weight, I've found a marathon to run. This is a rather ambitious goal, yes, but it's got two things going for it.

1. It's the Pittsburgh marathon. Run around Pittsburgh. What's better than that? And even run through Shadyside. I can't tell from the map if I get to run by our condo or not. It comes close.

2. It's May 3rd, putting it a bunch of months away and at least a fortnight before I turn 30.

I ran somewhat regularly when we lived in Pittsburgh in Sept-Oct. Then it got cold, and I lost interest. But when I was doing that, I was happy to see that starting off slow actually worked. I would run the five or so blocks from our condo to Aiken, stop, and then walk back. Then it turned into run there, run back. Then it was run up to Fifth Avenue, down to Aiken, back on Walnut. And so on. Eventually I got up to a 5k which was at a fairly slow pace, but still not too hard.

So last night I started that pattern again. I ran 3/4 of a mile, stopped and walked most of the way back. Yes it was cold, but I'm going to have to suck it up if I want this to work.

Anyway, I tell you this so I can actually like, be accountable and stuff.