Rain, Rain go away.. Wait, come back!

To follow up on my last post, which also happened to be my last run, I was miserable and could not walk for a couple of days. My legs were so sore and were very mad at me. Then Tropical Storm Fay made its debut and made running difficult. And yes, I know it sounds just like another excuse and yes I know you can run in the rain. But I'm not running during a tropical storm so my excuse is valid this time, and my lack of motivation helped my excuse remain strong.

With the rain gone as well as my limited motivation, I did venture out on my own last night. According to my running schedule, I should be up to a 25 minute run/walk. I did do my 25 minutes last night, alot more walking than running. To be more exact, 5 minutes of walk/run and the rest just walking.

I don't understand my motivation. I'm motivated in the fact I want to do this, I just lack the motivation of actually doing it. I mean I really, really want this. I get out there on my "run" and the minute I feel tired or hurt, I quit. And I know it will do nothing but make me mad when I think back on it but yet I still do it. I lack the determination to push past my boundaries.

I will be out of town this weekend so it will be another weekend without my group run, ast week was cancelled due to TS Faye and the fact our location was under water. When I do re-join the group they will be up to a 40 minute run/walk. 40 minutes..... 40 MINUTES!!! I can't even make it 5, what am I going to do?

No holding back now

My bad habits finally trumped my motivation, as you can tell by my lack of absoutely no posting. In the back of my mind.... waaayyyy way back there, I knew I needed to get back out there and get used to running. But the front of my brain that controls everything else kidnapped the back half and said to it "Nah, she'll be fine, she will start running when her program starts".

And let me tell you... my back brain was right and now I'm paying for it. Today was the first day of my Galloway Let's Get started program. We started off 1 minute run, 1 minute walk, 1 minute run, puke. Okay, well I didn't really puke but felt like it many times. They told us they will start us off at 1 and 1 for this week then next week we will break out into our pace groups. Yeah, Danielle will be going down a level. Next week is 20 minutes and today at minute 7 is when I thought my legs were going to fall off. In the next nine weeks I will have my group training on Saturday mornings... at 7am on Saturday mornings. Yeah, that sucked this morning especially since I have an Olympic hangover, dang Olympics going onto until past midnight. Anywho by the end of 9 weeks they think that our group will be ready for a 5K. A what?

Oh, and to top my morning off (as if it couldn't get any better) I locked my keys in the car. My bright idea was to take my car key off the chain so I wouldn't have to carry around the whole set. Would of been a great plan if I hadn't grabbed the wrong key. Luckily our meeting place was just a few doors down from where I work where I now sit waiting for someone to come pick me up.