March 2020 Monthly Running Challenge

Someone give me a push, I’m trying to work up to running in my neighborhood and it’s chilly. Hate running my neighborhood, and the thought of trading beautiful parks with wildlife for broken sidewalks filled with randos selling drugs and waving guns around for the next few months is getting me down. I’m getting ready but I keep looking at the clock and I’m moving super slow.

If some dude can run a marathon on a balcony and @quilteryoyo can run in her driveway I need to shut the stuff up and get out there! It’s a privilege these days to be able to run! I gotta get on top of the game mentally somehow.

Husband brought home 2 loaves of bread today plus lots of yeast packets. I'm so excited to bake bread, pancakes, biscuits, tortillas, empanadas, pasta, cakes, and cookies. The silver lining throughout all of this is I am now learning how to bake and cook things I would not typically bake or cook and enjoying it!!! I'm disappointed he brought home the bread because I actually like baking it.

I need to pull my kid out of the house. She needs to go on a bike ride or run. We live in a beautiful neighborhood and there just isn't a reason great enough not to get out and get some exercise. I'll see if I can't get her to run with me.

Gym husband uses is closed down.

Online school for my kids starts on Monday.

Yay @hamsterwheel6 on your 15K! and @TheMrWobbly on your HM!

6 miles this afternoon. This was actually my 2nd run of the day. First time I went for about 0.1 miles, then had to stop because PF in my right foot was unbearable. So I stopped and walked for about half a mile, then started again... very slowly. It was tolerable, so just kept it slow. Felt good to be outside. Wad the slowest 6 miles ever, but I don't care. Just want to be able to keep running.

Today's run was sponsored by Starsky & Hutch and Charlie's Angels. Yes, I did a treadmill run today. Watching those old shows helps the time to pass. I did 4 miles at a fairly easy 11:36/mile pace. I also did a mile of walking to warm up and cool down.

So... I’m still here. I am no where close to goal. I had a stretch where I was short on time... and definitely short on spoons. So self care involved having down time. I kept wondering if going for a run would have helped, but I just didn’t have the spoons to get my *kitten* together for a run, so I didn’t. Then, weather was junk, and even before wyoming shut gyms down, i was choosing to stay away from mine, as it is first and foremost a physical therapy establishment, and I didn’t feel my running should add to their risk. Especially since my portion of USDA was THE ONLY governmental entity in my county, at ANY level, still allowing/REQUIRING public access.

Along the lines of junk weather... I have been exposed to snow my entire life, but we get snow and NOT “ice storms.” Including this week, I can probably still count the number of ice storms I’ve experienced on one hand, and several of those, were probably Christmas time in Oregon things. Those of you who get those all the time, I don’t know how you do it. All I kept thinking, was “could I please get my *kitten* snow back, please?l

So, today was cleared up enough and warm enough that a run was safe, and reasonable. Garmin says my run was in “below freezing” weather.... i strongly doubt it was that cold, in fact I ended up being over dressed, even at my snail pace. And apparently I wasn’t the only one who decided it was warm enough for fresh air and vitamin d. Rarely do I ever encounter other pedestrians in my small town.... I had to dodge SOOOO many people today.

So today = 2.7/ goal? What goal?

Then I typed an off topic vent .... and having felt somewhat better just for typing it, and knowing we all have had enough of that topic, deleted it. Happy running!