Goal 1 Accompished

In life it's often the small battles that decide bigger outcomes. Today I won my first small battle. I told myself when I sat down to play poker this afternoon I would play until my Sports Talk shows were over (Jim Rome is Burning, Around the Horn, and PTI) then I would go for a run. Now I hate running like a lot of folks I know, but it is kinda crucial to the sport of Ultimate so I try to go do it from time to time. Some of my friends here in Seattle (Rob, Chuck, and Jay) are doing 28 day challenges to hit the gym and I thought to myself if I wanna play on a top team come May I gotta start training now. So goal 1 for the day, go run, and I did. Here was my route:

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I tend to wander when running as it's not about the destination so much as what you get to see. So when I get to a street corner I just choose a direction and go with it. Unfortunately I started with a 1000ft run up a 30% incline that kinda killed my legs. Now I won't lie and say I ran the full 2 miles here, in fact I probably ran only half of that total distance but that wasn't the point. The point was to get out and do something so i am not stuck indoors.