Ten years later...

I realized that there were things in my life that I used to be that I really liked. For example, I liked my hair blonde. I liked being vegan. I really liked running. All of these things are kinda hard to keep up with.

Hard but not impossible. And definitely worth the effort.

slowwwww mile

I really really didn't want to run today and tried to think up every single excuse not to go outside but in the end, I dragged my butt to the road.

Most of the reason I ended up going was that I went to my favorite clothing store this afternoon for a little shopping. I rarely buy new clothes but I almost always find something there that I like. There's nothing like trying on clothes that would have fit you 4 months ago and realizing you're like a sausage in its casing.

Tragedy.

Spring is here

So it's finally getting warm enough to run outside again and I've found myself sorely out of practice. Having used the dreadmill only sporadically through the winter I'm pretty much back to square one. In any case, I'm happy to retrain myself, hopefully I can still run a mile.

Wanted: Motivation to Make it Through the Winter

Needless to say, I haven't been very motivated these last few weeks. I can rattle off excuses about how much I've been working (16 hours straight on Christmas, YAY!) or my health (2, count 'em, 2 kidney stones say that my body got confused by meat and wants to go veg again) but in the end, they're all justifications for slacking off.

It's not really all that hard to stop by the gym on the way home from work. Yes I hate the gym. Yes I hate treadmills. Yes I would much rather be smoking half a pack over a giant beer and a shepherd's pie the size of my head. But it is far easier to give up than to keep pushing myself that next mile or seeing how much I can improve my 5k time, and I'll never be accused of taking the easy way out.