Running therapy.

Luckily, after my lone adventure on Monday... my faithful running friends were back and ready to join me for the rest of the week.  

Tuesday:

My training schedule called for 0-3 miles. However, Madison was unable to run Monday so she wanted to put in a few extra miles Tuesday to make up for missing...sooo I decided, "Sure! What could it hurt?"  So we met at our, what is now, normal time: 5:30am.  We decided to run 5 miles.  Not gonna lie, after about mile 3 my legs were feeling pretty dead and I contemplated suggesting we only do 4.  But then I thought, "noooo, one more mile? 10 more minutes? I can do it."  Sure enough, we got to mile 5 and we were both feeling great!  Another great start to my day.  ....well it was great until my accounting test at 5:00.  Thank you accounting.

This morning:

Wednesday's have been the mornings that I normally run with the TNT ladies.  Sooo we all joined together!  Me, Madison, Alfredo, Yvette, Sonya, and Sean met at 5:00am for a 6-mile run.   

4:20: Alarm goes off.  I think, are you kidding me?! I just fell asleep!!  Before I have the chance to think twice and press snooze, I hop out of bed and prepare myself for our run.  Sonya and Yvette seem to run at a little faster pace than I am used to, but I was definitely ready the challenge.  I really enjoy running with them because they push me out of my comfort zone and make me go a little harder in the middle of the week.  

Less than an hour after starting, we were done!  It seriously seemed like we only had ran like 3 miles... time flew by!  Another awesome start to my day.  And this time... no accounting test... instead, Billy Joel and Elton John. 

I've decided that running is my new outlet.  I've always heard people talk about how they love to run to let out stress, to get their mind off things, to cheer up... Before now, running has never been any of this to me.  It used to seem like a chore.  I would never go for a run to make myself feel better, it was more like a kind of torture that I absolutely dreaded.  But now, when I don't have a nice run in the morning... my day feels all out of whack.  I love long runs where I can just let my mind wander and get lost in my music or get lost in conversation with my running buddies (thank you Madison).  You'd think that we would run out of things to talk about or run out of breath to be able to talk... but no way!  We could talk and run for hours.  It may be a little far-fetched..but in a sense, running is keeping me sane.