ORN: 3.0 miles in 30'58", which was pretty darned good considering I haven't run in a couple weeks.
I have no excuses for why I didn't run week-before-last. I just got off-track. Last week, Ye Olde Viking Meadhall was knocked for a loop by the remnants of Hurricane Ike. We had a monstrous windstorm pass through, and about 300,000 customers, including us, lost their electricity. We were in the dark for a full week. Fortunately, between friends and family, we had multiple options for relocating, and we ended up staying mainly with my in-laws. Why did I not run there? Especially when they have a nice, safe, hilly subdivision across the street in which I could have run every day? No excuses there either. What I told myself was that I needed all my energy for work. I knew that was a lame excuse when I told it to myself every morning.
You see, I was planning on taking last week off anyway to do various home projects on my voluminous Honey Do list. All of it was manual labor -- painting, clearing tree limbs, repairing a fence -- and so by the time I finished working for the day, I was bushed. Still, I could have started the day off with an easy two or three miles and not been exhausted for the day, and the exercise would have helped with the stress of being dislocated. But I didn't. Instead, I ate a lot of carry-out and my mother-in-law's good, country cookin' and re-found a lot of the weight I had lost.
But that's last week, and I cannot get that back. But I can control what happens today and tomorrow, so therefore I ran today. And I plan on running tomorrow. But I am not planning on running in the Louisville Half Marathon next month because I have been so inconsistent. I am just not where I want to be, fitness-wise. Instead, I will focus on April's Kentucky Derby Marathon and try to be in shape for that.
Starting over again. *sigh*
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