Wow! Now you have to give me some credit for chutzpuh. I posted on Day 1 and then just never came back. But I didn't completely make a promise and flake out. I did train for about three weeks straight then got busy then got sick then apathetic then sick again, and now we've rounded back to committed. At least back to Day 1 of Recommitted.
I headed back to the gym today determined to pick up where I left off. I knew that starting all the way over with only 20 days left before the 5K would just be pointless. And if I can't even run for 90 seconds at a time 20 days out, what's the point anyway?
I completed the day's training. I can't say it was easy, but my ass hasn't seen the inside of a gym in almost a month and I was legitimately worried about my head starting to pound somewhere in the middle of the run (hello turning 30 and the onset of migraines!), but I made it. At this rate I'll be able to run for five minutes at a time on race day which isn't great, but it's something.
A part of me wonders why I should even go through with the facade of "running" the race when there's a good chance that I'll technically run less than half of it. Granted it's a run/walk, but I didn't fork over $25 to do something that I could do for free outside my front door, even if I am getting a t-shirt out of the deal. A friend is even driving down from Pittsburgh to help cheer me on, and I feel bad because it doesn't seem like that big of an accomplishment. I'm not going to be able to run the whole thing, so I won't win. I won't break any land speed records. I'll just simply cross a line at some point. Kind of seems anti-climactic. Yet, I keep telling myself it's a first goal. Part of the accomplishment will just be lining up that day and the other part will be crossing that line, no matter what happens in the middle.
Then...I pick a new line. And I commit to being more consistent in my training.
Random thoughts:
1. Lesson learned at the gym today: If you're forced to put your iPod in your bra while running, for all that's holy, don't put the volume wheel against your skin. Nearly made myself deaf at one point somehow!
2. At my little apartment building we all have individual rolling garbage cans. First, I hate how people put their trash in mine because they're all clearly labeled, but more than that, I hate how other people's cans end up next to my building and mine ends up next to theirs and even more than that, I hate how our trash cans get out of alphabetical order in the line out back of the building. Yes, I have issues.
3. If you're looking for a good book in the wake of the Alice in Wonderland craze, I recommend Alice, I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin, the "true" story of Alice.
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