Wanna run?

I'm all kinds of happy right now because the sun is out and it feels like running season again in our great Volunteer State.  I went for my first official outdoor run of the season last week with my friend Alayna.  I had a rehearsed speech that I pulled out during our slow and steady 5k, about being head strong when training for an event (we're doing the 1/2 marathon) and the importance or reaching within ourselves for the discipline to maintain and endure a training schedule (versus solely counting on each other for motivation). I spieled on and on about the fun of running culture, the tenacity it takes, the gratification of being physically able to pick up and go for a 5 mile run with any given running buddy, and the self-satisfaction of going into the summer undaunted by a bathing suit.  

She asked if she was going to have to endure my pep talks every time we go running.  

And then we mostly stopped talking because we both had cramps.

Alayna is excited about the catered brunch she's planning for after the marathon.  

I say, whatever inspires you... use it!!  

Personally, I'm inspired by the long awaited sun, the other bundled up runners on Belmont Blvd., and waking up my ritual of throwing on my Saucony's and going on a thirty minute sprint with my friends or Ipod, always feeling better about myself (and my body) in the after-shower.