The goal of this blog was to write about the general happenings of my life, including training for a marathon. If you've been reading, you've probably noticed I never mention running. This is because I hadn't had a good run in about 6 weeks. Maybe I ran Rascal around the block a few times but nothing marathon worthy. Well I'm officially re-starting my training, I've got a little more energy and momentum lately, a few job leads (nothing serious), and some progress in the wedding planning (again nothing serious), but the balls are rolling. So I'm super inspired! I really want to be in shape for wedding dress shopping in about a month and I do really want to run this marathon in December, though I am considering pushing it back to the February one, and forcing my bridesmaids to run as part of Bachelorette party celebrations. Would that make me a Bridezilla? Of course they wouldn't have to run the Marathon, there are shorter races... Ugh, I am running into one problem with my plan, these bigger events are starting to get so big that they are splitting them into two days, short races on Saturday and long races on Sunday, lame... doubtful I can convince people to run a half marathon or more just to support me.
So I ran two pathetic miles on Tuesday. Actually not too bad, 23:51... okay it's bad, and it was hard. Then I ran another two miles yesterday. So I'm feeling good. Now I just have to gradually add miles until I get to 26.2. Keep in mind me about six months ago would not have considered a two mile run worth going to the gym. (in February, I ran my Half Marathon in 2:46:04, this is averaging 12:41/mile)
Also, I'm really into cleaning right now. Anyone who's ever been to our house knows Matt and I do not care about neatness. I mean, we care, but not enough to exert extra energy to make it happen. Plus constant losing the dog hair battle makes me want to surrender all together. Dog hair is my whole life and I'm acclimated to it, does not bother me at all. But I'm feeling the urge to clean. The idea that we may move if I find a job is motivation, eventually I'm going to have to clean this place, might as well be now so I can enjoy it... There really isn't a prospect of moving, just a thought.
Unless you can see a piece of dog hair on your pizza or in your cereal bowl without having the slightest inclination to remove it--you just eat it--you don't have me beat in the dog hair apathy category. Don't mind my bragging, I've sunk to this level of competition. JK. I'm ambivalent to the bachelorette party marathon run. However, we won't be running as part of the girlfriends shower I'm throwing. I'm planning something less...icky. love ya!
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