Sock tans

I'm thinking I shouldn't have taken that much time off. I just couldn't get myself to go. I made up the excuses that "hey, it's christmas eve" or "hey it's christmas" and didn't go. Actually, I have a valid reason for not going on Christmas. As soon as we opened presents and such we went to my grandmas house and stayed there practically the whole day. Then when I complained to my mom that I needed to run, she said I couldn't in the dark because a lot of people get drunk this time of year, and that's probably true so I didn't argue. And that's why I didn't run on Christmas :) Although, I DO regret it now.

Today we went to the oval. We did 4 laps warmup, then did stretching, drills, and a bunch of core stuff. 2 more laps warmup then we did a 3ish mile tempo. I stayed with Bill and Garek for a bit but then I fell off of them. I feel like I could've stayed with them, I just didn't want to. I need to work on that. At least I refused to stop when the Zamboni tried to cut me off...it honked at me a ton, but I got mad and sped up so I wouldn't have to stop :) Then we did 4 laps to be at around 6.

I feel really out of shape. This sucks. 

I had to babysit today for my neighbors and so I couldn't go to the oval. I actually wanted to go to the oval, but I knew that if I backed out of the babysitting job they probably wouldn't ever call me again. On the up side, I'm $25 richer :)

Anyway, after I finished babysitting I went for a run. I did about 3.5 miles and went to Patrick's house where he joined me and we did 4 miles. Then I decided to finish to 10 so I went along 19th a ways and turned around and went back home. 

Wow the core stuff yesterday really made me sore... maybe its a sign that I should be doing core everyday. I will start now. Man so many things that I haven't been doing that I should be doing.  

Maybe I should've split it up into 2 runs, but I didn't know if I would be able to get myself to go again... at 13 mile mark I stopped and ate 3 handfuls of snow, then finished the run. By the end I was going at a slow 9 minute pace, but I was focusing on getting myself to finish because I was worn out.