call me crazy.

Or was it call me maybe? My 25th birthday began at midnight with an impromptu dance party in a parking lot with Call Me Maybe (yes, one of the best hits of all time) blasting out of my roommate Caitlin's car. However, I feel I identify more with "crazy."

For those of you fine people who know me well, you know you've called me that before. And now, I've come up with another innovative, imaginative, and extremely brilliant idea (I swear I'm humble...), which also hits two birds with one stone (who in the world hits birds with stones? and two of them??) - a blog has always been a bucket list item for me.

So first let me apologize, because I will not be over thinking and editing this blog. My thoughts and ideas just might not flow as well as my college papers (if they ever did...), and the wit that just shines when you see me in person might just some off as a sorry attempt here, but I honestly don't care. This blog is being created for extremely selfish purposes. Please join me in this adventure, though. I'd love your company.

This 5k-a-day was inspired by a combination of The Happiness Project and the big goals I set in my classroom (I model big goals with my students by talking about my running....a majority of the time it's a lie. "Aim to always be better than you've ever been before!" I'll say....but I never follow through in my exercising and health, so how am I actually modeling this for my students?) I have decided that every month I will have a verb or adjective or noun or....yikes I don't know which is which....basically a word that I'd like myself to be identified as in my exercise realm.

While I have not set every month's goal, I have decided the first month: Goal-oriented. I cannot meet a year's worth of goals if I am not a goal-oriented person. I've run 10 half marathons (holla!) but see here is the thing - my goal is to survive and do slightly better than before. Not much of a goal. And you Teach for America folks who are shaking their heads right now, you know that's a crappy big goal to have and one that I'm definitely not tracking. What's my goal? To run a 5k. Everyday. For a month. By the end of it, I want to run a 5k in 30 minutes without stopping. I haven't done that since 9th grade, and I've be dreaming of doing it again one day. Can't wait until I'm down to 23 minute 5ks and I'm laughing at what will hopefully one day seem like an easy goal. Wish me luck, my friends, and hold me accountable! That's the whole reason for this here blog thingy. You only succeed in your goals if you make them known - and if you get people to yell at you when you are slipping (that's my full time job, anyways). That's where you come in. Get mad if you don't see a post from me within reasonable intervals and if I'm not always talking about my goal, okay? Good. Thanks.

Cheers, to running a 5k a day...and to my quarter life crisis (in case any of you picked up on that). :)