Houston, we have a problem

Good news is .... I just got back from my first 25 minute run outdoors. Bad news is ... I thought I was going to need to call 911.

The weather had warmed up so we decided to run outdoors on the track near our house. Our last outdoor run was on our first day of training, so we were both wondering what it would be like to go from the treadmill to the track. For Adam, it appeared easy. For me, it was quite the challenge.

Almost immediately after the run started, I was already exhausted. My goal wasn't distance, it was just running consecutively for twenty-five minutes and twenty-five minutes seemed like forever. At one point, I even wondered if our stopwatch had broken. Running outdoors is vastly different than running on a treadmill. For one, it's a lot more beautiful (tonight, the color of sky was turning purple as we ran) and breathing in fresh air was quite nice. However, running on a surface that was constantly changing was quite difficult. Good thing that our first race will be on flat land. Now, I just need to find a marathon that doesn't have any inclines. That exists, right?

The greatest part of the run was having Adam sing to me to keep me motivated as we ran the inclines. Because he doesn't know all of my favorites, he had to sing bits and pieces of ones he did know. You can only imagine how much fun it was listening to Adam sing, "Nasty Boys" by Janet Jackson, "SexyBack" by Justin Timberlake, and "You Can't Touch This" by M.C. Hammer. As I was gasping for air, he made me laugh and it made it all better.

Hope he knows a lot of good songs because I'm going to need it for this marathon.