Time has changed very little. I have learned some things over the last few weeks. One of which of course has to do with my body and food. I will not be going back to a cooked food diet EVER. I am not sure that I will ever go back to drinking alcohol either. First part of April my husband and I went away for a weekend. We had a great time, but this weekend included drinks (of course) and it ended with a cooked meal at an awesome taco place (still vegan) in Burlington. Was the worst impulse decision that I have made in a long time. I paid for this meal in my training for nearly 2 weeks. It wasn't until about a week ago that my system finally got sorted out. It felt like I was running with lead instead of legs and cardiovascularly running was a nightmare. Thankfully last Thursday my body finally got over it. That being said the husband and I are going away again the first weekend in May and I'm trying to decide if I'm even going to drink. It doesn't bother me physically too bad, but it does take me time to not be dehydrated. My skin breaks out a little bit the first week after having a couple drinks and I am more tired and run down as my body tries to filter out the poison I put into it. As I type that I'm thinking it's totally not worth it especially with the marathon being only 30 days from tomorrow. It's getting so close and what I put in my body and what I do nutrition wise between now and race day could mean a good race, or the worst run of my life. I'd like to lean toward a good race if at all possible.
Overall training is going well. I have days I don't want to run (of course I do it anyway). I have training runs that I dread, but I think that is just due to previously difficult training runs. Today is intervals, it's kind of cold out and it's supposed to be windy -_- which means these could either be easy or extremely difficult. Either way I NEED to do them so no sense stressing about it. Get them done and over with and move on with the day. Yesterday was a low motivation day. I usually try and get my runs out of the way in the morning so I can shower, dress and have a good rest of my day without a "You have a run to do." looming over my head.
I'm hoping to see the sun today. This weather the last few days just sucks the motivation right out of me. It's been off and on rainy and cloudy and not very warm. At this point I would even take cold weather if the sun came out for a few hours a day. I'm so sick of the dark gloomy skies it's such a downer.
I'm at work this morning and it's chilly in here. Brought my slippers with me though so my feet aren't at least all stressed from wearing my Dansko's all morning. Stressed arches + interval run= :( unhappy feet and legs for the rest of the day. Not a sinereo I wanted to deal with so I did a little planning ahead to avoid it. Now that I just found out I'll be here an hour later then originally planned not only is my run pushed out, but I didn't bring breakfast so I'm hoping I'll have enough reserved energy and can stave off hunger long enough to go home and change and get this run done before I NEED to eat. You wouldn't think an hour would make that big of a difference, but it really does.
I may take a bath tonight and pamper myself a little. I have to open tomorrow too, but I don't do much for myself lately but run. I have a bunch of errands I need to do today after I finally get my run done and my shower in. Mariah's baby shower is this weekend and I need to get a fruit and veggie platter ordered along with a cake. Decorations need to be bought and I need to firm up the details of the games that we will play. In all that between now and Sunday I need to clean the downstairs at least. Oh and not to mention I'll be running in the St. Albans 8.5 mile Sap run Sunday morning. Work tomorrow and Saturday, and Tyler's talent show tomorrow night. Busy week that's for sure, and then next week will be another heavy mileage week for my feet.
I'm pretty sure when I cross that finish line in May I will probably cry. I've put so much of myself into getting ready for this. Sweat, tears, blisters, lost toenails, I've fought through low motivation days when I didn't feel like running. I've gotten past days I wanted to quit and just give up. I'm doing something a lot of people can't and won't and I'm proud of the progress that I've made towards this goal. Something funny? I'm already signed up to do another marathon next year and I haven't even completed my first one yet. Addicted to running much? Yeah I might be :) but there are worse things to be addicted to I think.
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