Wow, I haven't blogged in forever. Work has been extremely busy the past few weeks, which has inhibited both my posting and running... I did have a great workout last night though, 5 miles with about 2 of that running. (When I'm not running consistently, the lungs revert back!) After mile 1 my iPod died, so that sucks. Not sure how I'm going to make it through the marathon, because I'm pretty sure my iPod will die before the end... oh well, deal with that later.
It's kind of disheartening to miss workouts so much. Take tonight for instance—it's 8:26 p.m., and I am at work. I know it sounds crazy, but this is the time of year where there is just not enough time to get everything done between 9 and 5... or 6... Anyway, so it's 8:30 and I'm still at work. I could work out after this, since the gym is in my building, but I am also kind of hungry and need to eat dinner. My options are either go home, eat, go to sleep, or work out, go home, eat, go to sleep. Isn't it easy to see why I might miss a workout?
The crappy part is that it's going to continue this way for the next few weeks. Tonight and tomorrow I'm preparing for a conference that I will be at ALL DAY and ALL NIGHT on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. So the first time I'm going to be able to work out is Sunday, and I'll be exhausted by then. Next week should be OK for working out, but then Monday the 30th I fly out at 7 a.m. to New Mexico, where I'm working ANOTHER conference every day until I get home at 10:30 p.m. Saturday night. I just can't realistically say that I will want to work out at all during that week at the hotel or on the Sunday after I get back. But we'll see. Maybe I can turn into one of those people who needs to run to feel better? Right.
I hate that it has to be this way, but hopefully around mid-April I won't miss so many workouts. It's just that mid-April is dangerously close to mid-May... seems like I will be walking a good bit of the half-marathon. Maybe I should drop out... I don't want to do it and then just feel bad about myself after, especially when the marathon is so far away and I will have plenty of time to train for it. (Work isn't very busy at all in the summer.) Any thoughts? Stay in or drop out???
