Hi, my name is Carli Chesebro and I'm an addict. An addict of what you ask? I'm addicted to signing up for races. Yep, thats me. I must be crazy, but I can't help it. I see an announcement for a run and I can't help myself. I'm running in three races over the next 6 weeks. Two 10k's and one ten miler. I was going to do a half marathon but I was worried I wouldn't be able to get enough training in before the race at the end of the year.
What is it about running that I love? Well I'm not entirely sure. I can tell you I hate the first mile. Not just sometimes, but every single run. I go through what I call the Gollum/Smeagol phase on every run. It usually starts just before I take off Smeagol: "We're excited, we can't wait to run". A few minutes in Gollum: "We hates this! Our legs hurt, we can't breath. Why are we doing this???". Smeagol: "No! We loves running", Gollum: "No we don't! We hates it!!!". This continues for the first 15 minutes (aka mile one). And then suddenly I find my steady race pace and I just go into cruise control. My legs propel me forward and I forget about everything else. When I finish whether its a 2 mile or a 6 mile I feel amazing and can't believe how quickly the time went.
If only I could learn to love mile one........
Tuesday, 8 November 2016
Wednesday, 2 November 2016
The Presidential Circus
With the election less than a week away I can't help think "what's going to happen to America?"
As a child and even through my early 20's didn't really care much about the election. sure I read up on candidates and voted based on whose views I more closely agreed with but I never gave much thought about it other than that.
When I first heard Trump was running for president I laughed and even said to friends "there is no way he will win", "it's a joke", "it's a Democratic ploy to make sure Republicans don't take back the white house". But here we are 6 days away from elections and I'm thinking "is Trump really going to be our next president?".
It's true no president gets to make all the changes he or she promises, But if Trump does win the election we may very well end up with the Great Wall of America . Who knows maybe it will become the 10th wonder of the world . ..
As a child and even through my early 20's didn't really care much about the election. sure I read up on candidates and voted based on whose views I more closely agreed with but I never gave much thought about it other than that.
When I first heard Trump was running for president I laughed and even said to friends "there is no way he will win", "it's a joke", "it's a Democratic ploy to make sure Republicans don't take back the white house". But here we are 6 days away from elections and I'm thinking "is Trump really going to be our next president?".
It's true no president gets to make all the changes he or she promises, But if Trump does win the election we may very well end up with the Great Wall of America . Who knows maybe it will become the 10th wonder of the world . ..
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