Country-Music Marathon

So yesterday, I got talked into running the Country-Music Marathon (1/2 of it anyways) in Nashville on April 24th. I'm training for a half marathon anyways, it's part of my 24-by-24, but I didn't realize it would be happening so soon. Very Soon, that date feels like it's looming over me now. I look at my calender and I'm like... Oh No, that is only two months away, and at this moment I can't run more than 3 miles without passing out on the street and calling someone to come get me....


Bottom line... I think I am in trouble. I need training!

But I got talked into this by a very cute guy who has sat next to me for the last three years in my music classes, but for some reason I looked at him at the end of last semester and was like, whoa, you are an awesome guy, why have I not noticed you before? And then I remembered, Oh yes, my mere presence used irritate the heck out of you. Well, apparently the tables have turned, because we have pretty much done ever assignment together since the moment he realized that I wasn't an obnoxious freshman anymore. Well at least it started with assignments, then it spread to being at the coffee shop the same time every morning, then it's sitting together at the coffee shop, then it's laughing, a lot. usually at my expense, but I'm ok with that...


Anyways, this guy, for now lets call him Mountain Man (because he is one), and I were talking about how I wanted to run a half marathon. He said I should run the one in Nashville with him, and I was like of course I'd love too! not realizing it as 2 months away, and then offers to drive me out there because there was no need for both of us to drive 8 hours when we could do it together. So Mountain Man and I's relationship just went from wow, I really can't stand you, to I want to spend 16 hours in a car with you, in only a matter of a couple of weeks. I don't know about you, but i really want to know what is going on inside this boys head.


This is the funny part of the story now. So we went to the gym to start training because it's so cold outside still... (ps. it's flipping NC, i feel like it should be warmer than 40's) and we were running, i was trying to match his pace, which is hard, because he's a very tall person, and my legs are kind of short, and needless to say it ended up poorly for me. I got over confident, as I normally do when I try to be flirty, tripped, literally flung off the treadmill and into the elliptical machines behind us....

Worst.Experience.Ever.

so much for me being fun, cute and athletic.
After he got done laughing, he helped me up. but I could still tell he was laughing at me.
And now i have giant bruises all over my legs.


what can I say. I'm not the smoothest person that ever walked the earth.


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