Day 126 - Beach Jogging

Today was the first day of the long Labor Day weekend! I love having an extra off. It's actually ridiculous how much happy that one extra day makes me :)

So, in honor of the holiday, my friends are going to come down to my family's beach cabin to sit in the sun for a few days and relax. In order to beat the crowds on the Ferry line, I went down as early as I could after work and managed to drive right on. The weather was really nice when I got there (well there was a small reminent of a thunder storm that had rolled through earlier, but that just cooled things off), so I decided to take advantage of it and go for a jog. Yes - this is a FIRST: I brought excercise clothing on vacation and actually USED them! Miracles of greater proportion have happened, but still this is on the list! :)

Anyways - another miracle occured as well: I only used some of the workout gear I brought. :) Let me explain: at my university (the one I was a student at, not the one I work at), we had a jogging trail around campus. It was approxiametely 2 miles square and was used CONSTANTLY! Seriously, there were people out there at all hours of the day and night. And, most of the girls wore tiny cheerleading shorts and sports bras to prance around the trail with barely any sweat, fully done perfect make-up, and a ribbon matching the shorts in their shiny, bouncy ponytails. No - I am not exagerrating. I on the other hand, when I would go out there, would be in an oversized t-shirt, baseball cap, no make-up, and would be dying from heat stroke and lack of oxygen to the brain. Thus, it has been a secret goal of mine (sense starting to jog) to go back to that train and jog the whole thing in shorts and a sports bra. The significance of the outfit is to of course show off your athletically toned body, which I have never had. I still don't think I have the perfect body for the outfit, but I finally have the confidence :) I jogged at the beach in cheerleading shorts and a sports bra! Insignifant to most, but a personal victory for me. Though, I stayed true to my no make-up and baseball cap policy. :)

Alright - so onto my actual jogging. Because there is no defned trail and I didn't want to mess up my fancy jogging shoes, I decided not to jog on the beach itself. Instead, I started at my cabin and jogged up and down each street between it and the beach, then jogged straight up the main road back to the cabin. I am not sure how long of a jog that is distance wise, but it took me 38 minutes to do, so my guess is about 3miles.