Motivation

I haven't blogged in a week, probably because I am having trouble finding the motivation to run. Never mind finding the motivation to write about it afterwards.  Summer break has been cruel in that way. It suddenly got hotter as soon as school let out, which means I have to get up even earlier to run. But, get up very early, with no place else to go has been the hardest part.

I am on my second "rest day" in a row, which I don't usually like to do. But after frantically looking for my house key that I take running (it was in some shorts in the dirty laundry basket, I must have used it when going out to get the mail or something), it was too late to go. So, I took a morning nap instead and still made it out the door in time for summer school planning day.  I like to think that I am going to be well rested for the race tomorrow, but I might be kidding myself that I am as ready as I think I am. I can cover the distance, and I can do it in a certain amount of time, but confidence and fun might be lacking. Summer school starts next week--so hopefully that will be enough to get me out of bed at 04:45 am and out the door to run!

On Tuesday, I went running with a co-worker and she took me on a new route.  I liked the route and luckily we had great weather for running.  But, on Wednesday, I went to the gym for a run in the afternoon and was struggling with it.  It was taking forever and I wasn't going the same distances on the treadmill as I can do in the same amount of time out on the street.  That was kind of a motivation killer as well.

I am really hoping that tomorrow's race will help build up some extra motivation (and confidence) for me, and with the start of summer school I will also have a reason to get up (sort of) early and that I should get in a run first. I really thought that I was getting in the habit of running in the morning, but I guess not... It is going to be a tough summer getting up before the sun to go for a run. But, once I finish the 5K tomorrow I will again begin working on stamina instead of mostly distance and hopefully get back into the swing of things.  Maybe, to make it interesting, I'll have to mix up distance runs with endurance runs.

I guess I should keep this in mind:

A month ago I couldn't run for a whole minute. Now I am going three miles almost every day!

Please wish me luck that I can get back to running on the roads in the morning. And, let me know if you want to run with me!