The Official Start

     Hope everyone is doing well!  I started the first run yesterday! :)  Go me!  Starting out I was nervous.  I have been a smoker for 10 years, and even when I was at the same weight as I was 10 yrs ago I still couldn't breath well after a few minutes of running.  We did our preliminary stretches and before we knew it, we were off and running.  Things went great the first 60 seconds or running, then we walked for 90.  We did this process until about minute 15 through the workout and then it happened!  My crackberry decided that it would malfunction and reset itself on me.  If any of you have ever had a blackberry, you know that the re-boot process is ridiculously long! (approx 10 minutes!  my desktop doesn't even take that long!) 
     So being the over-dramatic Hot Carl that I am, I freaked out.  Thankfully Karla had her cell phone inside her bra!  At least I think it was... I dunno.  You women and your hiding places for money, cell phones, keys, etc. baffle me at times.  Anyways... back to the story.  So she pulls out her phone, and she set a timer for 60 seconds.  She did not have a stopwatch on it, so we proceeded to run and walk another minute each and turned around.  We continued on all the way home walking a minute and running a minute!  I have a 16 mile bike path behind my house, so I didn't want to run too far then have something happen and have to walk or call mommy to come get me! 
     Thankfully we did turn around, because I almost died!  OKAY... not really, but it COULD have happened!  Not to far before we finished our run, there was a spot on the path that had been fixed up.  While we ran we tried to chat in between gasps of breath at the end and I did not see this spot, and ALMOST ended up in the bushes.  When we got back to my house, I did the cool-down stretches and proceeded to swear at myself in my head for going through with this!  Man, that sure hurt.  I did survive it tho!  Last night I slept good, after my mind stopped racing and thinking about life.
     This morning, it was a little rough getting out of bed, but after some wonderful coffee and some stretches I was ready for my day!  Despite walking a lot in my stores, I feel great!    Although I went to a funeral service today, I am in a good mood, is it possible to release so many endorphins that I am in a good mood??  Or, maybe it was from crying a lot at the wake?  I dunno... but I am ready to hit the path for day 2!  (technically it is day 1 according to the Blackberry!)  Oh... BTW I am using the app: Couch to 5k by Vimukti Technologies
Weight: 215 lbs!

~Hot Carl

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