Daily Inspiration

Every weekday, I get an inspirational quote e-mailed to me from Runners World magazine.  The quote I got yesterday is one that I should have enlarged, framed, and hung in my bathroom for me to look at every morning when I wake up.

"The only disability in life is having a bad attitude."

-Oscar Pistorius

Who is Oscar Pistorius you ask?  He's the guy who ran in the Olympics and he has prosthetic legs.  I guess if he can overcome something like having no legs below his knees and he can become an olympic athlete, I think that maybe I should try and find some way to get out of this running slump that I'm finding myself in and I should just get on with it.

I haven't written anything for quite a while (It's been over four months, but who's counting?) because I have been struggling so much and I didn't want to just complain about how I'm feeling for fear of anyone telling me to just buck up and stop complaining.  But I think maybe that writing about it will help me somewhat.  So, bear with me.  I need to work my way out of this down in the dumps feeling that I have and get myself back out there and feel better about my running.

5th Raciversary!

Tomorrow is my 5th Raciversary!  AMAZING!

I feel like I'm shocked when we get to this point of the year, the day of the Get in Gear race.  But come on, isn't it still incredible that I even started running in the first place???  Running when you don't have to do it is plain torture and why would anyone stick with it for FIVE YEARS when they're not even very good at it?  It's practically insane.

Once a month?

Well, well, well...  It seems as though this is turning into a once-a-month blog.  It's not that I don't think about writing, I just think that all I would write is the same thing that I've already written lots of other times.  Topics like this:

I'm trying to run, but it's so hard.

I'm frustrated.

Finally!

I finally did it.  I went for a run.  It's been 3.5 weeks since my last run.  (Man, this is turning into some kind of confessional with a priest or something.)

I've been in a tail spin of sorts these last few weeks.  It's probably the new job/schedule/chaos catching up with me, but I just feel like I have no time to do anything.  I wake up, go to work, come home, put the kids to bed.  That's it.  It's boring and it's not all that satisfying.  I'm not eating smart.  I'm not exercising much.  I don't feel very good about me.  But, such is life.

No way!

What?  I haven't blogged for a month?  That's so unlike me!

Ok, maybe it's pretty normal for me.

But anyway, back to writing.  Same old, same old around here.  Not running much, but I'm getting to be close, personal friends with Jillian M. and her friends Maddy and Anita.  30 Day Shred and I are spending a lot of time together and I'm hoping that it will make it easier to run once I actually start getting out there on a regular basis.  And that day will have to be soon because I need to get started training for a half marathon that I'm running with my bestie!

Day 20!

Who's feeling good this morning?

I AM!

I got up and went to the Y for Group Cycle this morning.  I don't know why it took me so long to decide that I could go to that class, but I'm unhappy with myself for not giving it much of a try before a few weeks ago.  Anyway, I'm on the post-exercise high right now, feeling invigorated and ready to take on the day, and it's so great!

Today is Day 20 of the "exercise every day" plan that I'm on. 

So far, so good

Can you even believe it?  I'm on Day 18 of exercising!  I'm shocked that I've kept it up for so this long.  Granted, it's not all that long.  But there have been more than a few days when I wanted to just skip the workout for the day but decided that I didn't want to lose my streak so I did it anyway.

Like today, for instance. 

Balancing Life

Tomorrow is a monumental day for me.  I am starting a new job.  I feel like that's a pretty big event in anyone's life.  New place.  New people.  New routines.  Wondering if my lunch box will be hip enough.  Trying to figure out what style of scrubs all the cool kids wear.  You know, it's important stuff.

Can't... get... moving...

The kids are at school.  I'm at home.  It's a beautiful 40 degrees outside.

I can't seem to get myself out the door to run.

I know that I have to do it eventually and it makes sense to just get out and do it and get it done with, right?  It's Day 12 of my "new plan" to be active so I can't quite now.  But here I am, writing about how I can't get out the door instead of just putting my running stuff on and getting outside.  

So I wonder, how do you get yourself motivated to move?

Trying New Things

My new "thing" is that I need to do some sort of physical activity every day.  For so long, I found myself running 3 or 4 days a week, but I wasn't doing any kind of cross training.  Running was starting to get old and I was dreading it more and more every day.  And I'm pretty sure that I wouldn't have gotten injured during the marathon training if I had been doing more cross-training.  Grrr...  So I've learned my lesson and I am now on day 9 of my new plan.

So what am I doing?  I'm glad you asked.  Here's a little rundown.

Runiversary!

I don't know the official date, but I do know that it was a new year's resolution in 2007 that started this whole running business.  So I'm counting January 1st as my runiversary.  You might not be familiar with that term, but I think you can figure it out, right?  It's the day to celebrate when I first started running.

Now, what's to celebrate?  Well, I'm so glad you asked that question!