It snowed today. Yes, and we had sleet and hail and rain and then more snow. The temps fluctuated between 31 degrees and then 52 degrees and now it is back to 36 degrees. Tomorrow it will be 60 and then 80 on Saturday. Boy...what a crazy crazy spring we are having!
In honor of spring--and of completely finishing our IF treatments--I am back to running. Or at least I've committed to running again. It has been over a year since I ran any meaningful distance, not counting a couple miles on a treadmill here and there. Oh I've tinkered with the gym this year, on and off, but there was always a good IF excuse lurking. We're doing IVF, I'm stimming, I'm in the TWW, I'm depressed because it didn't work...rewind and repeat. And honestly I didn't have the heart to exercise--or the energy or the freakin' give-a-crap to get off my butt and walk anywhere, let alone run nowhere. But it is time. Time to care about myself again. Time to love my body instead of loathe it. Time to accomplish something and reward myself when I get to the finish line. Time to work really, really hard and actually feel like that hard work nets me something.
My motivation for lacing up my sneaks again is that I've run two full marathons and like 12 or 13 half marathons in the past 6 years. [Just to clarify, when I say run I really mean waddle, jog, walk, waddle somemore. I live to close race courses and be the last to cross the finish, and I take pride in looking NOTHING like a runner. While it took me a long time to get to the place where I could be okay with this, now I am and now I actually just have to get out there and run.] And since I've done virtually nothing but eat this past year, I have reason to really need to get active again. So I've joined up with the local USA Fit program in my city (which is how I've trained and run all my races) for the summer, and I'm committing to running a half marathon in the September/October timeframe. Given that I'm back to running for a mere 15 minutes before I want to quit, I'm going to need all those months to get back into my solid, snail's pace, runner shape.
So I welcome Spring and say adios to Winter and beg Summer to get here soon. I need all the sunny, non-rainy, perfect-running-weather days I can get! Anyone else want to join me???
5 comments:
Um, no. I hate exercising! :) I'll be with you in spirit though.
Good for you for thinking of yourself again. It's so easy to get wrapped up in all of this and forget ourselves.
While I wish I had your drive for the exercise thing... I totally hear you on the crazy spring weather. I keep waiting for Mother Nature to just throw in the towel and let winter take over again.
Yes, isn't this weather crazy?? Good luck with the running! Wish I could get myself to do something.
ICLW
Hey there Nicole....read your brief bio...Good Luck with Adoption plans...You nannied for seven years...I am sure you would be so fantastic with it....
I hate to exercise, and DH is a jogger.... I never get inspired enough...
Nice to have met you in the blogosphere...
*ICLW*
Right now I'm doing the couch to 10k. I've never ran a step in my life before this and I fully doubted that I could... even if someone were chasing me. I have to say I'm in like with running. It feels really good to get on my treadmill and watch the numbers climb. I'm with you. Although I don't really have any desire to hobble across the finish line at any races anytime soon. :)
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