Running Today

I'm running today. I know this because it is on my calendar and I am dressed in my running clothes.

All I have to do is put on my running shoes, my running belt that holds my water and music, my windbreaker, gloves, neck warmer and hat. My thermometer reads 14° and The Weather Channel app on my phone is reporting that it is 18°, with a wind chill of 6°. The sun is shining and I know that after the first mile my hands and body will be toasty warm. It’s just the getting out there that can be hard. The first step is so often the hardest. I was out of my running routine for what seems like the last several months. I’ve just gotten back on it and if I run twice during the week and once on the weekend I feel like an athlete. So, I am using my blog to hold me accountable, if I post it here then I have to go.

No Excuses:

1. I am healthy and I strongly believe my getting sick in September, November, and December is a direct result of me being out of my routine. When I run I tend to eat healthier and prior to September I hadn’t been sick in a year!!

2. I saw a stranger running this morning after dropping my kids off at school and from inside my car I thanked him for warming up the sidewalk and told him I’d be there soon (that was an hour ago!) I bet he’s already finished his run.

3. All I have to accomplish today to feel productive is run and make Puppy Chow (oh how I hate that name) for my son’s class bake sale tomorrow. Low standards? Maybe, but I still don’t have my running shoes on. Running and making junk food….that counts as living a life of balance, doesn’t it?

“Should” Kind of Day

I should be baking something for the couple who won my auctioned cookies, the first of six. I guess I’ll be baking them tonight, no worries. Either way they will be delivered tomorrow at the agreed upon time. I just have to plan out the presentation of them.

I should be gardening. I bought a beautiful pot full of Johnny jump ups that is unusually tall. Johnny jump ups (a member of the pansy family) remind me of my mom. I try to buy them every year, or some form of pansies. I have memories of living with her in Connecticut and her excitement when they would spread and “jump up” around the garden. I bought them Friday night at the first farmer’s market of the season. There’s a single flower that is a hybrid of a pansy and Johnny jump up and is light purple, rather than dark purple and yellow. It made me want that pot more! I’ve decided I’ll just transplant them into another pot opposed to the garden, they’ll get the sun they need to grow even if they won’t have room to jump around.

I should be blogging more. It’s most definitely not from a lack of ideas. I mentally write blogs daily, often multiple times a day. I hope to make more time to get them out of my head and onto the computer. I suppose I am accomplishing this right now. I should be writing about how well the half-marathon went yesterday (2:09:39). I should be writing about how referring to some friends as family is meant as a compliment, but I’ve decided the better compliment is telling them they’re better than family. In some family member’s cases this doesn’t take much though, but I mean it as the utmost compliment.

I will go rest in hopes it turns into a catnap.