but if i asked her, i wonder if she would come dancing, on a saturday.

in the summer of 2007 i decided to do more running, and i broke my lungs. summer '08 i was out of the game with misdiagnosed broken lung syndrome and in '09 it was correctly diagnosed broken ankle syndrome. here we are in the summer of '10 and i am supposably healthy and ready to hit it, but all i have learned since '07 is that my simply deciding that i want to run more is insufficient to make it happen.

so i thought instead of simply deciding that i would take a measured approach so i stepped it up week to week and things were going pretty well until the joy evaporated like a full-moon boggart at the flick of lupin's wand. i really don't know what happened but the heat and the boredom of running the same routes became too much. i tried shaking things up. i tried running other routes. i tried running inside. hell, i even tried running with other people, and i hate other people.

i was still getting miles in, but it was becoming taskwork. i thought a couple weeks of swimming and hiking at brigadoon would sort things out and get me back on track, but no, all that happened when i got back and hit the road was the same struggles with complete boredom and lethargy.

my latest theory is that the problem's the arrow, not the hunter, so i got myself some new arrows. first i got 2 new pairs of shoes - one asics cumulus and one nike lunarfly. i have worn newbalance for years, and it's time to try something different. and, i got some of those compression capris that all the girls look so cute in so that i can wear them and look like a jiggly dork. and, i got some more coconut water and something called FRS that's supposed to provide "healthy energy fueled by quercetin (a powerful antioxidant)" both lance armstrong and the guy at the vitamin shoppe endorse FRS, so i am sure it's the bee's knees.

i know you'll all be eagerly sitting by the blogosphere waiting to discover how this all turns out.