feel like a runner

3.5 miles (warm-up, stretch, to park, 1 mile around park trail, back home)
8-8:30 a.m.
32 minutes
Slower, but steady pace
Bird Park
High 80's (guess; it was pretty warm, but I think I didn't drink enough water, so I was kind of dehydrated; I wasn't even sweating as much as I thought I would be)

Cooper was up at 5 a.m. and I think I fell back asleep for a little bit before he was fussing for Chris. So I fed him again and got him down, then Chris starting making breakfast...we had Cooper's pictures at 10 a.m. so I was talking myself out of going for a minute, then I was like, there is no reason not to go! So I did! And it felt so good to lace up my shoes and go. I was hoping closer to 4 miles, but it probably was more around 3.5 miles. I wasn't exhausted, but just not moving very fast today. I immediately noticed my change of focus when I started the 3 laps around the park trail that equal a mile...I start thinking when will I be done with this mile...as soon as I got back on the rode home and didn't have a "circle" to run that equaled a certain distance, I ran differently. Good to know this is my tendency. I prefer to be on the road if I can.

I thought today about my running in junior high and high school. I was never amazing, but then again I never put that much into it, so I wonder if I could have done/been more than I was. I also was kind of kicking myself for never doing cross-country; I think part of me was lazy, the other not wanting to fit in, be part of that group. I love how strange we are in high school; looking back it's funny to think why was I so dumb about stuff?! :)

I like my new shoes--Adidas Allegra. They are much comfier than my last pair of Saucony, for which I am grateful. I am realizing that I should have signed up for the 4th of July race sooner, just to have something set. I still think I worked to be semi-ready for it, but I think in the back of my mind I was still coming up with excuses of why it wouldn't work. I see that it is better to sign up and have that set, so my attitude and behaviors will fall in line with that, instead of the other way around, coming up with excuses that determine my choices of if I run, how much, etc.

It was a great feeling to start my run this morning and think--I am a runner! To feel cool :) putting my two feet in front of each other and going on a Saturday morning for a run, like a "runner" would.