On a completely different note

If you follow my blog because you want to see what Seth is up to, this post is not for you.  It really has nothing to do with him, aside from the incidental fact that I'm his mom and these are my thoughts.  My blog, my rules.

First of all, I discovered Aveeno shampoo this past week and it is A-mazing.  For some reason ever since I've been showering in the downstairs bathroom when I get out my hair is all matted, I think maybe because of the angle of the shower head, but who knows.  Since childhood I have had this hatred/fear of combing through wet tangled hair, so I've also been using CHI Keratin hair mist as a detangler slash leave-in conditioner.  My hair has been SUPER silky ever since starting this regimin and I can't stop running my fingers through it.  So thought I'd share that in case any of my female "bleaders" are in a hair product rut they've been looking to escape from.  Or male ones I guess, if there are any.  Eric did jokingly whine that his hair was super soft when I told him he better keep his mitts off my shampoo and go get some VO5 for himself.  ;)

The road that is immediately adjacent to my parking lot at work is closed due to some utility work, but local traffic obviously is ok.  So of course this means people think they can just swerve into oncoming traffic in order to get around the sign.  Hello, am I invisible?  Also, there are two lanes that turn from 3rd Ave eastbound onto the freeway, but you have to cross 2 other lanes in order to get to the on ramp.  For some reason people in the outside lane always think they are the only car on the road so they cut me off on the inside 90% of the time.  Thankfully my cat like reflexes enable me to avoid accidents there on a weekly basis.

I've mentioned a couple of times that we (Seth and I) have been working our way through a Couch to 5k program, which if the name isn't explanatory enough, is a training program designed to get you off "the couch" to running a 5k.  Clever, right?  So I've been using this app on my droid to guide me through the process and the latest version of the app allows me to automatically post to Facebook when I complete a session.  Who cares, the point is that yesterday one of my BFs asked if I was going to run in a marathon.  Which is really funny because that very day, or maybe the day before, I had been pondering that EXACT question as I was driving along on my way home from work.  It's like she read my mind!!  To make a long story short, the answer of course is an emphatic "NOT LIKELY!"  So you can stop reading now if that's all you needed to know.

But since this is my blog I will continue with the long story.  Like I said, the other day which I'm pretty sure now was Monday because how this all came about was that as I was driving home I was actually looking forward to my run, which is SO weird because I've always hated running and thought runners were weird and used to say things like "I'm not a runner" and "I don't run" whenever someone would ask if I wanted to go running.  Wow, was that ever a run-on sentence (HA HA!!).  Anyway.  So I was also thinking to myself "how far do I actually want to be able to run?"  Marathon?  Out of the question.  I still think marathon runners are kind of weird (no offense).  I mean, seriously, even if you run a 7 minute mile, which is pretty freakin' fast, a marathon still takes more than 3 hours.  THREE HOURS!!!!  That's just silly to me.  The reason I am running is A) it is good exercise and B) it makes me feel good.  Three hours to me is an excessive period of time to be exercising at a stretch.  I don't have that kind of time.  And if I can get the same "feel good" benefit in 30 minutes then really what is the point?  So even a half marathon I thought is probably not on my radar. 

Even I'm getting bored now with this post, so time to wrap it up.  What I settled on for my immediate goal is the Turkey Trot, which is a Thanksgiving Day "fun run" 5k.  I should be done with the Couch to 5k program by early September and then after that I can work on running faster.  Not sure yet what my goal is in terms of speed but I'm thinking probably in the neighborhood of a 9ish minute mile.  That would make me feel somewhat respectable.  I've also set my sights on Bloomsday 2011, which is May 1st and is 12k.  I decided that's my max.  If I can run Bloomsday, or at least finish in about 90 minutes, I'll be happy.  Sorry Seth (OMG there he is again!!), if you're pushing a stroller in Bloomsday you have to walk or you're disqualified and banned for life, so you'll have to sit this one out or convince Nana or Auntie Natalie to push you.