Aversion

Static Stats: 

Running: easy 3

Yoga: not until 1:00

Weather: beautiful fall day

Happy Harvest Season!  It feels like fall here in the NE.  I love love love the fall.  Running in NYC this time of year is exciting.  Everyone is preparing for either the nyc marathon or another fall race.  The park is crowed with running groups and the leaves will be changing soon.   There were even a few runners wearing long sleeve shirts today.  

During the past few months prior to signing up for Philly, I had been having an aversion to running.  I was still running, but during every run all I wanted was for the run to be over.  I've figured out what it was.   I've been running in Central Park for almost 8 years.  Central Park is amazing, without it I would not survive this big city.  That being said there is a limit to how many different routes one can run in the park, most of which are loops (thus the name of this blog).  In training for two prior marathons I exclusively ran in the park.  The easy solution to this is www.mapmyrun.com.  Its my newest addiction.  Check it out its great!

Aversion list:

Running in circles

Cucumbers

Now that's serious talent!

Yesterday's static stats:
Running: 1 hour 10 minutes- approx. 8mi. (amazingly hot!)
Yoga: the hardest class I've ever been to in my life
Cupcake consumption: 1

Here I am back at the running thing. I should say "structured running thing." Now that I have my yoga discount card aka: student i.d., I am commited to going to yoga 2x a week when possible. I love yoga. The mind connecting to movement is the perfect formula of meditation and thoughtfulness that my mind and body craves. If you've experienced it then you know what I mean, if you haven't then you should try it out. If you do try it out, it takes time to get there. Its very similar to a runner's high. A runner's high takes a certain amount of training for most before it can be acheived. The same is true with yoga. I've been practicing on and off for the past 7 years. My initial thought regarding yoga were: I'd be bored, I would pull a hamstring, I would laugh, fart or otherwise embarrass myself. I've done all of those...except farting...at least at the audible level however not at the olfactory level. Yesterday I had my very first laughing experience. My yoga instructor announced at the beginning of class that she is four months pregnant. Well, this superstar instructor is the superstar of them all. Maybe she wasn't a superstar instructor, but a superstar yogini herself. I've been to many a yoga class that was over my head, but I made do. This one was ridiculous. Seriously the hardest thing ever. At one point in class she did a cirque du' soleia style move as she instructed us to do the same. The instruction was given as if she had asked us to lie down in savasana (corpse pose). I laughed out loud and then couldn't stop. I had to bury my head. The worst part was that my dear friend A was practicing on the mat beside me. I hope the instructor wasn't too annoyed. She kept saying while looking our direction, "your in the right class. This is a level one and two class. I'll make suggestions and you can do them or not." Clearly not the right class, but seriously sister you've got talent!

Do you see what I see?

That's right!  Look at my list of races.  I've signed up for the Philly marathon. 10 weeks from today.  I know C-R-A-Z-Y.  You can count on hearing all about my preparation here.  Can't wait to share this experience with you.  My goals are BIG for this one.

Off to yoga class.  Its the best supplement to marathon training.