Why I am associating my new (beginners) running club with ..Fight Club ?? I have NO idea…but I am ! For some reason every time I think about or mention “running club” – Fight Club pops in my head. Crazy..I’ve never even seen the movie ! Maybe it’s my inner struggle that sublimely keeps telling me to keep fighting? or..maybe I just want to feel cool like the guys in Fight Club? ( that’s probably more like it )
Anyway…last night was my first meeting with the group. The first actual meeting was last week, but like all of you know I was in Boston. Of course at the beginning it was just like I kind of feared it would be. Everyone seemed to make fast friends last week, and were all chatting it up about last week, their runs for the week, who is now BFF’s with who…bla bla. There seemed to have been clique’s already. Now if I knew that last week was the official “bonding” session and everyone would fastly <( don’t think this is an actual word, but I like it just the same ) fall in love with one another I would have flew home early from Boston to be apart of the love fest. So I’m definetly probably being overly a little over dramatic, but it was a little disappointing. No worries though…I migrated to a group ( the larger people, who looks like they might be on the slower side group) and chimed in with a witty line. ” ummm, soooo…how long did you guys run for last week?” Ok…maybe not so witty, but at least I was talking to a group…now known as the ” cool kids group” !
So fight club was a rude awakening to just how out of shape I truly am. But as we were running ( and I was about to collapse ) one of the girls mentioned that she just ran her first 5K…and then corrected herself and said ” well more like walked and stumbled my first 5K ” and I KNEW I was in the right group. 🙂
Tomorrow night is the clubs April meeting and I would actually love to go..but I have a work thing at night, so I can’t. I’m really hoping to get involved as much as I can, and feel comfortable with because It feels kind of cool to be a part of a “club”. Am I dork? …maybe….but that won’t stop me from ordering a official club jacket !! lol
It’s kind of funny. From all of the running blogs that I read of my blogging friends, sometimes I feel like a running expert ( in my mind only of course! ). Whether it’s about marathons, the benefits of running, or even barefoot running..I feel like I know it all. In my mind I run effortlessly…( for more than 4 minutes at a clip), 5K’s seem totally doable and my 1/2 marathon is not out of the question. BUT…once I start shuffling these feet, I’m smacked in the face by reality. Either way…. my loyal followers keep pushing me on, and I thank you!!
“Hey, you created me. I didn’t create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!”
-Fight Club
ok…so half of my post has a line through it…not sure why. So I’m just going to sip on my Sam Adams I.P.A and call it ” All is good”. 🙂
Oh Holly, you always crack me up! I am glad that you made it into the cool kids group:) I am sure that you keep them just as entertained as you do your blogger friends! Congrats on getting started with your running group….this will help you more than you know! Keep it up and you will have no problem with your up-coming half marathon! Cheers to Fight Club and to Sam Adams:)
I just read through the line like it wasn’t there…that’s how interesting every word of your post is 🙂
Running group definitely keeps me honest when it comes to giving my all…you’ll see that it’s very motivating to run with a group. Keep going along!!
LOL! I know exactly how you feel about coming late to the party…I was in the same situation when I joined a previous running group a few weeks into it. After the first few runs, I found “my peeps”. Sounds like your “Fight Club” is going to be great.
stick with the club…i felt like that when i first joined, too. but you’ll grow to love the companionship and look forward to it each week.
have you tried one of the couch to 5k programs? my sister and husband just did it. i’m so impressed that they are running 3 miles at a time now and have made such improvements.
it’s great that you have the knowledge from reading up on running…now you just have to start it off slow and build up the mileage and you’ll be all set. don’t push too hard or it won’t be fun.
watch fight club…it’s a great movie
Wish I lived closer so I could be in the Cool Kids group! Or any group for that matter! You inspire me and we are about the same place in our running career. Yes talking about it and doing it are two different things! I even think to myself “Cannot wait to go run today! Wonder how far I can go?” and then I get out there and start and feel great and five minutes later, I am thinking “What the hell was I thinking?” But really, it’s all good!
Hey, thanks for the commiseration and kind words! I thought I would return the favor.
I joined a triathlon group a couple of years back that I affectionately referred to as the Mean Girls for about the first 3 months (well ,some of them I still refer to as those “self-important bitches”, but rarely to their faces 🙂 )
Here are a couple of posts from then: Not particularly funny and/or interesting, but maybe will help you feel better about your running group.
http://rbr-runbabyrun.blogspot.com/2008/03/that-didnt-go-so-well.html
http://rbr-runbabyrun.blogspot.com/2008/03/i-finally-made-it-to-swim-workout.html
(sorry I do not know how, or am too lazy to look up how to hotlink and make it pretty.)
Wait a darn minute, isn’t the first rule of Fight Club to not talk about Fight Club?