An Introduction:
I've never ran a marathon. I can wear the half-marathon runner crown, and I've ran in a 203 mile relay race, but my desire to push my limits past the point of sanity has never made itself known...until now. To scratch my writing itch, and combine one of my newer pastimes, I've decided to blog about my running experience for the upcoming year. Does that mean marathon? If I play my cards right it does. We'll see how this goes...I'm an amateur but not a complete stranger to the running world.
Run One for the Gipper:
I feel like I've been running competitively for years, when really, I ran my first adult competitive race (I think it was the Austin Zilker Relays) in Fall 2008. I've ran all my life...and it is a love/ravenous hate relationship. In high school I loathed cross country, and in college I had my running down to a science. I would run a mile a day and combine with mixed cardio. Running in small portions is doable...running in large doses can be downright detestable. Now, I run to be healthy and to reach goals that somehow seem a little more realistic than say...writing a novel, which is still a goal of mine on the topmost pillar.
So with that:
Officially, today was my first day to train for my first race of 2011, the Texas Independence Relay (TIR) that will occur during the first week of March 2011. This is the 203 mile relay that I ran in March, and got talked into it doing again!
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