A Little Bit of Random Ridiculousness...

Wanna see the oldest phone on Earth still in use? Here it is:

That is what my phone looks like, except mine has a shattered screen and scuffs all over the edges. This December it will be 3 years old! Whaaaaaaat!?!? I HAVE GOT to get a new phone!!! There are sooooo many things my phone CAN'T do it's ridiculous! I can't take a screen shot, I can't see the pictures I'm taking of myself (what a disaster right? haha) I can't do 'Snapchat' b/c it won't play the videos people send me....

This is a picture of me running..... kind of.... wouldn't you have enjoyed seeing this happen on the side of the road! haha!

AND to top it all off......... somewhere around 1 mile of my run today was 'free' - My tracking app froze and turned off at 2.33 miles and I didn't notice until almost a mile later that I never heard my stats for mile 3. Grrrrr!!

I reset the thing and kept going.... I think I probably did a little over 5 miles. I wish I knew exactly! I had a pretty eventful run - in addition to the tracking ish, I also had a HUGE dog come out to the end of its drive way and bark at me. It sounded deeply annoyed at my presence..... probably the same way I sounded when I yelled "Come get your dog!" toward the farm building it came from. Don't know if they heard me, but the dog did and he didn't come any closer.... he could tell I meant business! :) (But I was pretty scared - checking out the fences trying to find one I could run to and climb if I needed.... trying to imagine how to get over the barbed wire..... intense!)

What kind of phone do you use? I'm trying to decide: iphone? galaxy? Something completely different?? AAhhhh too many choices!! (Part of why I haven't already gotten a new phone.)

What do you use your phone for other than 'phoning'?

Wow! I feel like a *REAL* runner now!!

Ok, I know, everyone who runs is a *runner* - doesn't matter how fast or how far, only that you run....BUT....

A few things have happened recently to make the experience, the push and the drive a lot more *real* to ME.
1) I pushed through a really hard long run (10 miles), coming off a super painful throat infection, I actually had to run/walk the last 2.5 miles. I'm just glad I listened to my body and made the adjustments I needed in order to make sure I didn't get injured. But, I am sore today - not injured, but sore and that makes me smile - my muscles are being pushed and their developing - yay!!

 

+

 

2) I just scored an awesome list of dynamic stretches/drills from this blog that I just started following (hello! - I finally crawled out from under a rock - tons of people read this blog b/c it's AWESOME!!) ....too bad I found the list AFTER my long run... maybe I wouldn't be so sore if I had been doing them already...

 

These two "events" have made me feel more "official" - whatever that means! I just know I'm ready for my next run! Bring it!! :)

 

 

Was there an "Aha!" moment for you as a runner, when you felt "official? Share!!  :)