Motivation

Yes, I am still running, although it feels at times like the universe is fighting me at every turn. I bought new shoes. After my first time out with them the outside of my left arch hurt like mad. I exchanged the new shoes, and still the foot hurts. I have decided to push through the pain. Don't argue with me. I will not lose my momentum. Last Saturday I made it out 3.85 miles. I was quiet pleased with myself. Stop it. You're laughing at me. I realize that is a far cry from my facebooking friends who regularly log 12 miles, but I'm getting better!

I have plenty of internal motivation these days. It has been a thrill to get back out there, and I swear to God, I am already seeing results. My legs look stronger, I'm getting some tone back, and I love it. I have also found motivation in my Nike GPS app. It tracks my route and pace, (10 min 30sec/mile, slow, but not as bad as I expected) and at the end Tracy Morgan or Lance Armstrong congratulate me on my efforts. I also got a couple cute new T-Shirts. One shirt says "run" with a rainbow, and I think it makes me look hard-core. The other one has a picture of Wonder Woman. Since I am now almost at 4 miles I must be Wonder Woman. With my new shirts  I feel cute when I run, which is motivating.  Yes, I do realize that I'm easy to motivate.

However, now I'm freaking sick. I have a sore throat, a runny nose and I'm beat. I absolutely must recover before my girls trip to Vegas this weekend, and thus, I will not run today. I probably won't run tomorrow either. I'm upset. I have worked hard to get to the point where I want to run almost everyday, and I am afraid of sliding back to my routine of laziness. It would be easy to do......