This month’s StrideBox showed up in my mailbox while I was attempting (and slightly failing but still managing 2 miles) to run on Tuesday. Yay! 🙂 I swear it’s like Christmas morning the day that thing comes. It’s pretty freaking sweet. And after my run I did a little bit of yoga, because like I said, I was trying to focus on that this week.
And unrelated, but it’s super muddy outside so all 3 of my dogs (but mostly Finn and Dean) are gross mud monsters and I’ve given up on ever having clean floors ever again. Fun fun fun.
Thursday morning brought lots of rain. Which eventually turned to ice, and then later in the day snow. I got my “run” done during the ice portion of the day. Run is in quotes because it was more slipping, sliding, walking over really bad patches of ice, and stopping for cars, that it was actual running (I talk a little more about all of that here. 😉 ). So normally I’m a little more neurotic about hitting my daily mileage, so not gonna lie, it kinda hurts me to type “3.89” instead of “4” miles. But the roads were getting increasingly worse the longer I was out, so the second I got to my driveway I called it quits instead of going a little further to actually hit 4 miles. Haha but I mean, it honestly is close enough and really isn’t that big of a deal. Plus running on ice is freaking hard! This has to count for at least 6 or 7 miles. 😉 I kid, but it is hard. And pretty fun too!!
Oh and all of the mud in my backyard is frozen for now. So that’s kinda nice! Hahaha well, until it melts I guess.
I woke up tired, sore, and unmotivated to do pretty much anything. Initially I was super frustrated with myself because I’m supposed to be working towards all of these big goals I have and these small amounts of running that I’ve been doing just aren’t going to get me there. And then I remembered that I actually did kinda do a lot yesterday. I mean, running on ice is freaking hard! Plus I was sick last week and the week before that was Christmas, so once I took a minute to step back and remember all of that, I realized that I’m not doing too bad and that I can’t just jump right back into where I was months before this just because I want to. I’ve got to slowly get back to the mileage that I was at and then start building up from there (which is my main goal for the year), and attempting to do too much too soon is going to do nothing but cause problems. So I did not do the easy 20 minute run I had planned for Friday.
That was hard….Running in general is hard. But that’s one of the things that makes it so special, right? 🙂 Just trying to slowly work back into a more normal running routine. So far, I’m making a tiny bit of progress.
That’s better than last week and that’s all that matters. 🙂 Plus my goal was to focus more on yoga and I definitely succeeded at that!
This entry was posted in Running, Weekly Recap and tagged anxiety, border collies, cross training, Dogs, fitness, health, lifestyle, run, runner, runner girl, running, running with anxiety, Stride Squad, StrideBox, weekly recap, yoga on January 14, 2018 by Ashley Dailey.
That’s ten more miles:). What is a stridebox?
Exactly!! It’s a subscription box for runners. So once a month you get a box full of snacks, drink mixes, and other fun running related goodies to try. It’s pretty awesome!!!