i have a lot of respect for what my cousin is doing – training for a marathon and all.  i got up this morning and did approximately 4.5 miles on the beach.  i’m pretty certain i ran at least half of it.  that’s not even close to a marathon and yet i’ve been holding down the couch all afternoon from exhaustion.  yes, that is entirely different from holding down the couch due to laziness.  i had plans to finally start some cookie baking today but that just isn’t happening.  not only am i too tired but i can’t stand long.  my feet are pretty tender from having all the skin wore off of them while running in the sand for such a long distance.  i guess they need to toughen up.  of course, that’s assuming that i can drag my sorry (and huge) butt out there and make a habit of beach running.