Oh yes, I can!


Cue the "My Fair Lady" soundtrack.  Go to the song they sing right after the ball.  I want to hear " You did, you did it. You said that you could do it and indeed you did!"  Yes, I am a wee bit gleeful after the 5k that started at midnight. I may be slower than a turtle in molasses but I finished.  And although I wouldn't admit to goal time before we started I was really hoping that I would finish in an hour and just wouldn't be the dead last one that everyone was waiting for wishing they could turn out the lights.  But I did it in 42:24  and I didn't keep anyone too late!  I learned I can do it and now I will even train for the next one.  Oh yeah there will be more.  I hated it in the moment.  But now I can't wait to try it again only this time with some training.  The cross fit helped me get to that point.  Today I actually hurt more from yesterday's  work out (75 power cleans @30# for time) than I am from the run.  I am a bit sleep now that it is nearly lunch time but I was up bright and early running the roads.  I was wearing the shirt I got after the run and one of the guys at the butcher shop asked if I had run it because he had too.  Cool now I can make running connections.  :D Stop laughing y'all or you are gonna pee your pants.  I know the thought me running is funny but it is also fun.  
Now I get to go figure out the rest of the day.  I picked up some meat to can and flowers to plant.  But first.....I am starving I worked up an appetite.

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