Trail runner in training

i am new to this whole blog thing. my best friend has one and she turned me onto it. i used to write allllll the time, but that skill (if you want to call it that!), or rather hobby, has been collecting dust long enough, as she says. so here i am, having created a blog of my own...i figured, what the heck--i am waiting for my last load of laundry to dry, so here i write......

if you'd have asked me 5 years ago, i wouldn't have had a clue that trail running could be such an amazing addiction! ok, so maybe i need more of a life, but for now it has been the main reason i get out of bed in the morning. to make it just that much more invigorating, i've discovered the most wonderful trail near my house that leads up into the backwoods of the ski resort near where i live. it is full of twists that satisfy my adventurous side. you can't imagine my thrill to have found this series of winding paths! you see, i just recently moved to this area of town and was missing the neighborhood i came from, mainly because it also was very near the forest (ok, so i might miss the people there too just a tad, hee hee!), so now that i have reconnected with nature, i feel more at home, away from home. though i was raised in the mountains, i haven't really begun to take advantage of it until just recently . i LOVE being outside! maybe it was working in a bank cubicle for 3 years that put a hunger for the outdoors back in me, who knows, but i will continue to let this oxygen feed my soul from here forward if i can help it! this is where i feel more alive than anywhere else, for now--that is, besides when i am singing or writing music at the piano, but that is another story, for later on maybe..... so i found this really cool book at barnes and noble about women's running, and was pretty surprised to find it so useful! some "manuals" are nice and full of information, but no application. not so with this one baby! i am learning how to track my progress as a distance runner and journal my routines. it has everything you'd need to know from what kind of shoe to use to how to train for a marathon--complete with a schedule to follow every step of the way (no pun intended). so though i am "in training" i can feel a bit closer to some of the ol' pros by learning from what they have to offer. who knows, ask me again in another year or so and i might be telling you all about my latest distance race or marathon and all the challenges along the way!

ok, so my laundry is dry now and i'd better head home--besides, i want to get my rest in (-hem, yet another important thing in training your body to perform at higher levels of excellence, tee hee!) so i can hit the trail in the morning before church! (ok, ok so i already admitted i am getting addicted to this stuff! what do you want from me????) goodnight.