Who needs a schedule anyways?

Well I lied about the whole training schedule thing. I started with great intentions but couldn't muster the courage to do it. The calendars I printed out is still hanging on my fridge door shouting "Go run, Go run!" but being a full time employee, a wife, and mother of 3 leaves little time to work on myself or some silly training schedule for a race I still haven't  registered for.

So instead of a "training schedule" I am just going to wing it. Yep, I hope that the first paragraph made me sound little discouraged and lazy but the truth is I have been running and Loving it! I had to start talking my husband to work around 5:30am after the axle went out in his car. I didn't want to drive all the way home then back to work at 7am everyday so I decided to start working out at the Y beside my hotel.

But then on second thought I have a crazy fear of gyms. I feel like everyone is looking at me and thinking about the "fat" girl. Yep. Even after losing over 100lbs I still have some crazy self esteem issues. Anyways, after talking my self out of using my Y membership I choose to run at a park in between our places of work.

I set out to do a walk/run since the last time I "ran" was in January and that was only .7 miles. I ended up jogging about .9 miles and walking .5 miles in the rain. Not too sure how long it took me because I forgot to start my garmin. When I got back to the van and started to stretch I could have screamed when I saw it still said start! I headed to the hotel took a quick shower and then started working. I don't think that I have ever been so productive at work. That 1.4 miles impacted my whole day in ways I could have never imaged. That day I made up my mind that I didn't need some crazy training schedule to met my goals, all I needed was to listen to my body and push myself.

Running has turned into my norm now. Every other day I will get up early and go out on a run. To date my longest run was 2.23miles. I am so proud of my silly ol 2.23 miles. First off it was on a Sunday, so that means I had to get up on my own and run before I headed out to church. & I did it! I am not one to get out of bed early for anything so that in its self was amazing.