Fair Weather Runner

I have discovered that I am a fair weather runner.  I have absolutely no motivation to go for a run when it is raining and cold.  This I have realized is a bit of a problem since it is now Sunday and I have not ran in a week.  I am also out of routine and I am not craving in like I was before my trip.

I am hoping to remedy that today.  I am going to go and buy a treadmill.  I looked on kijiji and found that there are tons of cheap used treadmills!  Now I just hope someone emails me back today.

The rain and children, specifically Georgia have kept me from running.  Jet lag has been really hard on her, last night she woke up at 2am and wanted to play.  Not cool!

Tonight I will be going for a run, no matter what and I am going to run and I am going to run 5k....and see how long it takes me.  I have been running for 30 min and I do about 4 km give or take.  I want to do 5k because next Sunday I have signed up for a timed run.  I want to start doing timed runs to start getting a time to improve on and I like the race atmosphere.

Back on the Wagon

I have been home a week now and the jet lag is almost done.  Jet lag hit Georgia and I hard!  I was doing so well the first two days and then bam!  The exhaustion hit me like a truck on the third.

Somehow I managed to get 3 runs in this week and I have started a new diet.

I am motivated again and it feels good!

Today I started my first long run.  My Sunday runs are going to be my 'long' runs and I am going to build my runs up every week by adding 5 mins on.  I am also working on my speed per mile.  I have gps on my phone that tracks my route and pace.

The run tonight was wonderful because I got to run with my running partner and we got to catch up since we haven't seen eachother in a month.  My time was the best yet!  My goal is to get to a 12 minute mile and tonights run was 12:44 per mile!!