Chronicles of a Late Bloomer

Okay. So, I got brave and had day two of walking the block mile, but this time had to pick up Milo three times for big, stray, roaming dogs around the neighborhood. I’ve seriously got to find a new place to walk because I can’t handle the panic. The last dog was a huge black rottweiler that was friendly (as it turned out) but I was shaking so hard from fear that I almost couldn’t walk. The dog trotted along beside us for nearly three blocks and all I could think of was how he might lunge at me or at Milo and take a big chunk out of some combination of the two of us.

I did take some time to drive around and scope out neighborhoods later this afternoon, and may try walking down around Hoover and Adams where a series of churches at least keep the sidewalks a little cleaner. It’s a higher auto-traffic area so hopefully that should also cut down on the number of crazy attack dogs and, while driving, I did see several people out running.

Walked by a stand full of those free apartment and real estate magazines and noticed a magazine called Los Angeles Sports and Fitness. Normally, I wouldn’t have even looked twice at it, but with shoes on my mind lately and all of this business about running, I figured “what the heck?” Normally, I would have felt all self conscious, picking up a magazine with racers on the front cover but not this time. Normally, I would have chalked it up to a temporary insanity which strikes from time to time in which I actually think that I can lose weight and get fit.

Not this time.

I’m glad I picked the magazine up. It has great information about races (not for entering, maybe, but certainly for inspiration at this point), running shoe stores, and other stuff. I’m even thinking it might be cool to attend the LA Marathon this year to get inspiration. I’d like to see the different kinds of people who go and run in the thing. I’d like to see people of varying body types and ages and abilities. I never knew there would be such a thing, but everything I’ve read so far has me curious.