Everyone makes New Years resloutions. They annoy me, because no body means it. If the really meant it they would say I'm going to that now, not wait until the New Years to make my resolution. Because, frankly, I am sick and tired of waiting around hoping one day my dreams will come true. I am 26, and basically have nothing that I have worked for. But I am getting there.
My running pre- New Years reslolution is to commit to consistancy. I can run. I can pretty much run up to (maybe more) a half marathon anytime I want, my body is trained for it. Which awesome. Especially if I ever get stranded. But I am horrible at running more then 3-4 days a week. Which does nothing more then give me the ability to run a half marathon. It strengthens me no more then what I have already reached. And after the tragic event of my first marathon, gosh darn im not ready to say this is all I can do! I can do better! I have committed myself to running 5 miles a day (no more, even if I want to) 5 days a week (I can do more days if I want, but I dont see that happening with my life) And I have learned an important lesson so far just in this past month of that committment:
"If you have a chance to run today, do it. Cause you dont know whats gonna happen tomorrow that makes you say,
I wish I would have ran yesterday when I had the time!"
I think what has been holding me back the most with my running is that I have made too strict of a plan for myself. And im not a strict plan kind of girl. Give me something set in stone to commit too, and ill almost always fail. Its a horrible weakness I have, but I am learning to adapt, cause Im tired of always failing. Before I would tell myself I am running Mon, Tues, Thurs, Fri, Sat. So I wouldnt run Wed even if I had time, and then inevitably something would happen where I wouldnt be able to run thursday or Friday. So I would fail again.
So I have decided to make a change and follow my above quote. I check the weather a week ahead of time, see what days it looks to be best, and then I run as many days as I can before that. If I know Wed weather will suck, I make my self run the first 3 days, that way I know I have some leeway to take wed off. But if I know Wed will suck, and I dont run sun or mon, Im setting my self up for failure by causing me to HAVE to run everyday the rest of the week, or not meet my goal.
So basically I am forcing myself to commit to running even if I dont want to. And because of that commitment I have been rewarded with getting my mile up to an 8:30/mi/5 mi. (havent tested any distance at the pace yet. That will come soon enough)
The journey has been tough, but adventerous and rewarding. Keep on running.
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