Time gone by…
Where do the days go. All of a sudden I’m thinking I haven’t blogged in a few days – - zoinks! like a week plus a few days! When did that happen? For some reason, lately, I have been exhausted in the evenings and have gone to bed by 7:30 some nights. It’s not like I get up terribly early – 5:45 or 6:00 and it’s not like I do much more at work, physically, than drive around and get in and out of the car alot. Not surprisingly, running has been more of a struggle too. Lately it’s seeming like a much greater effort to do the the same things I have been doing. Well, hopefully I’ll shake whatever it is off soon. Thankfully, for all the unexplained malaise, I don’t feel sick. Just so tired.
It’s 4 weeks till my 5 miler. Presently my “long” run is 3.5 miles so I hope to tack on that extra 1.5 over the next month’s time. I don’t need to run it fast (yeah, like I would *eye roll*) I just want to run it all. For some reason it’s really been hard for me to move beyond 3 miles and it’s made me feel kind of stuck. I’ve been trying some interval kind of stuff which I’m not so much hoping will necessarily make me faster, though I wouldn’t kick faster miles out of bed for eating crackers, but will make the distances I’m running more tolerable as I increase (or just more tolerable period). It just doesn’t feel like my cardiovascular capabilities are improving, it seem I go as slow as ever and only as far as ever and it’s always hard as hell.
You know, I am just a crab-ass tonight. I was thinking that I really didn’t want to post a bunch of sighs and complaints, but here I am all tired and whiney. Time for bed, tomorrow’s a new day.
Comment by Mia
Tuesday February 08 2005 @ 10:44 pm
You’re going to be so glad you did this. And you will do it. I had a “7 mile” run on my schedule, at one point, and I just had to move it up 3 weeks because it was pissing me off that it was looming out there and I was so convinced I couldn’t do it. So I just said, “eh.” and I went out and did it. Then I did more. And farther. It’s such a mind game. You’ll do great, and when you’re on the other side of it, you’ll wonder what all the fuss was!