26 degrees today and cloudy. 6 mph wind. The weather has improved.
I haven't run in 6 days because of illness and weather... but mostly because I've been feeling sorry for myself that I don't have a treadmill or a gym membership.
I'm ending this streak today. I've mustered up the motivation to do whatever it takes to run. Thus, I am loading my 10 month old, my 3 year old and all their "equipment" in the car today and I'm driving to my sister's house. She has agreed to babysit them for 1.5 hours while I run. In exchange, when I am done, I must gather my kids and her 3 year old into my car and take them all back to my house for 2 hours, where no doubt, my house will be destroyed. After my sister picks up her son, I will then spend the next several hours trying to cook dinner and clean the mess. It is alot of work just to run. Sigh...
Nothing worth having is ever easy. I guess the same applies here. I always tell people the reason I like long distance running is because it's so hard. If it were easy, I wouldn't feel the pride for accomplishing that days run. I've decided that in addition to the actual effort of running, I need to extend my pride to the entire effort that is required for me to be able to run.
I'll report back later how all this worked out. Hopefully, I can hang on to this motivation and jump back on the training wagon for good.
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Update:
I am so happy that I ran today. My confidence and motivation has been restored. All the effort I have to go through to run today is worth it.
I ran this park by my sister's house that has a 2.6 mile loop. I decided to run the loop 3 times and try to get faster each loop. It was fun. My IT band on my right leg started bothering me on the 3rd loop. I think it's these mizuno shoes...
Loop 1 - 22:09 (8:33 average pace)
Loop 2 - 21:09 (8:09 ap)
Loop 3 - 20:40 (7:59 ap) | 