Mercedes: Biting off more than I could chew... or so I thought...

The content of this post came from another blog that I tried to keep going at the beginning of 2010... it lasted all of 3 months, at best...

(The beginning of this entry found me lamenting about school and whatnot... pick up now)

The real reason for this post is to convey that I, like the title of this blog, can't hardly sit still... The end of the semester is looming (roughly 4'ish days and counting) and at this point, I'm running on fumes... there's nothing left in the tank and with what I'm about to write about, you'll understand why it's damn near impossible for me to concentrate on anything...

I have recently decided to take on another challenge, which begins now, and ends on Valentine's Day, 2010...

(waaaaaaait for it...)

The Mercedes Half Marathon, Valentine's Day 2010, Birmingham, Alabama

WTF? A Half Marathon? I must need to have my head examined... 13.1 miles? At once? Yeah, I kept asking myself over and over again if I really meant it...

But what I kept realizing, is that yeah, I do mean it.. And hell, since it looks like I will yet again not be spending V-Day with anyone special, I might as well spend it with 10,000 strangers... It's time to bite off something big... something bigger than ever before... 2009 marked a great year for me with endurance/athletic challenges... October saw me completing my first Sprint Triathlon and first 10K race (6.2 mi), as well as numerous 5K's, most recently of which was last Wednesday back in Lafayette. Although I felt like utter shit the entire race, I managed to nearly set a new PR (Personal Record)... Guess I can be thankful for that (please note sarcasm)

So here I am, a perfect bundle of nervous energy... I'm finding it excruciating to concentrate on school work because I daydream about running, which, if you know me, should come as a surprise...I'm not a "runner" perse'... In fact, I hate running, mainly because I'm not good at it; it's not easy to move this 260 pound frame any measure of distance under any measure of given time... Really, the only thing I'm good at running is my mouth... But hopefully that will all change... I've hired my friend Kendrick to be my coach and he has already written up a pretty brutal training plan ("HTFU" as he calls it...), but I think at this point, it's what I need... I need to be a) pushed and b) held accountable, which Kendrick does both... Having been out of commission for nearly the last two weeks due to a cold, it's been a pretty rough week getting back into training mode... But, I've got the entire month of December to do nothing but pound the pavement, splitting time between Tuscaloosa and Lafayette... I'm actually looking forward to doing nothing but running over the break (wait, WTF did I just say? hmm, sounds like I'm contradicting myself already.. hating running, but looking forward to it?

So, this is the first big "journey" of 2010...

See ya'll at the finish line..