# of the Beast

Today was supposed to be an off day for me (all the running sites preach the gospel of "rest" days) but as it is the beginning of the weekend and b/c I was actually feeling a little restless energy (que???) I decided to go out before I do anything tonight. 1st, I made my christening use of the juice box and juiced an entire 5 LB. bag of carrots in on go. For those of you who are complete dorks and are wondering, it makes about 60 oz. or so of crack cocaine, also known as fresh carrot juice. Sure, it'll turn your poo a shade naranja, but more importantly it'll make your deadbeat ass feel all bright-eyed and bushy tail like. Anyway, I gulped down a pint of that sheez, and did my walk run gig, this time mostly to "Exile on Mainstreet", a classic which I initially marginalized by calling "uneven" yaddayaddayadda, whatever I was an idiot its awesome. The production isnt that clean, so it takes a little getting used to, but its a quality that eventually becomes endearing. Anyway, throughout the run I felt...........................................
Really fucking good actually??????? Wow. I actually winded myself going a little longer on the last leg but I did the rest no sweat and in general felt pretty refreshed afterwards. I've also been looking at some of the other online running programs, and Im pretty glad that Ive chosen the one I have. One has a "couch potato" doing a 5k in 9 weeks, but this I simply cannot see, given the initial shape I was in. In all honesty, I will be very extremely satisfied AND surprised if I can comfortably run a 30 minute 5K after 45 seshes as this plan lays out. I guess I don't have any reason to be all the skeptical since Ive never really tried the whole thing before, but its more running by far than I've ever done in my life, so I'll believe it when I see it. The next week should also be nice and easy for me as the time levels off for a week before jumping up 3 minutes/week for the next 3 weeks after that. Alright, guess thats its for now, so far so good. Im probably leaving for Ohio around next Saturday, so mi papa's lifecycle has my name on it I guess, lest all this noncents go to waste.