I must admit, I've kind of been avoiding this, for two reasons--kind of like my other blog. 1. There have been some changes to google accounts and I was too lazy to deal with them. 2. I haven't been sticking to my training, and I didn't want to admit it.

See, that's the problem (or blessing?) with these things; once you start something, you create some kind of accountability.

Friday, my training called for 2.5 miles easy. I did nothing. Sure, I could blame it on the fact that my abs were more sore than they'd ever been in my entire life due to my spontaneous decision to exercise them the night before, but really it just boiled down to laziness.

Saturday called for 3 miles easy. I did 2. It was getting dark, and I needed to get ready to eat dinner with my family, so that called for a shortening of the run. But hey- I thought about not running at all, because my abs were even more so on that day than they were Friday. But, I ran. I ran.

Sunday is usually my scheduled day of rest, but I have ran on Sundays at points in my training (once or twice) if I skipped a day earlier in the week. I skipped multiple days this week, so really I should have ran on Sunday. But, I didn't. I was going non-stop from 8 am until 9:30pm, with church, running home to eat and pack up my stuff, running to the Halifax Country Club to dress rehearsal, perform in our church's dinner theater, and then drive back to school! Needless to say, I was exhausted, so instead of running I crawled into my bed and lay down for a little while before eventually falling to sleep. That exhaustion carried over into Monday, so I didn't run. :/

But today's the day! Today's the day I get back on track. And I'm going to take things a little easier. Exhausting myself to try and strictly follow a training regimen is not worth it. I am running! And right now, that's what's important. I'd rather run a few miles easy than avoid running at all because I don't have the energy to run 5x800 repeats at goal 5k pace. If I don't get a decent time, hey. Time will be my focus next.. time. Hehe. This time, my goal is to enter the 5k race, and complete it. That's more than I've done in over two years! So I'm okay with that goal. Gonna start small, and work my way up. So here I go! Off to squeeze in a decent run before curfew!